Shimoga villages
Karnataka · Shimoga · Hosanagara
Balur
1,033
people at the 2011 Census · 514 male, 519 female
Population
- Population
- 1,033India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 81.51%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.33%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 73.92%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 15.41 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1010 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 859 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.52%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 3.29%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.49India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 42.11%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 30.83%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 93.56%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 57.89%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.
Balur in context
With 1,033 people at the 2011 Census, Balur was the 337th most populous of its district's 1530 villages, above the district average of 738.
Literacy stood at 81.51%, 5.1 points above the district's rural average of 76.37%.
The sex ratio was 1010 women per 1,000 men (15 above the district's rural figure of 995) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 859, 64 below the rural national 923.