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Dakshina Kannada villages

Karnataka · Dakshina Kannada · Mangalore

Balkunje

1,551
people at the 2011 Census · 656 male, 895 female

Population

Population
1,551India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
92.49%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
96.03%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
89.89%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
6.14 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1364 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1423 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
8.12%India 13.59%
SC %
7.67%India 16.63%
ST %
2.51%India 8.63%
Household
4.41India 4.85

Work

Workers
38.30%India 39.80%
Female Work
25.36%India 25.52%
Main Workers
80.64%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
61.70%India 60.20%

This village is classified entirely rural at the 2011 Census, so urban population share does not apply. Density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract. See Methodology.

Balkunje in context

With 1,551 people at the 2011 Census, Balkunje was the 285th most populous of its district's 331 villages, below the district average of 3,304.

Literacy stood at 92.49%, 7.2 points above the district's rural average of 85.33%.

The sex ratio was 1364 women per 1,000 men (344 above the district's rural figure of 1020) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1423, 500 above the rural national 923.

38.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.7 points below the district's rural rate.