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Puruliya villages

West Bengal · Puruliya · Raghunathpur - I

Banshgan

2,110
people at the 2011 Census · 1,070 male, 1,040 female

Population

Population
2,110India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
62.01%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
78.18%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
44.97%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
33.21 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
972 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1114 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
14.93%India 13.59%
SC %
20.33%India 16.63%
ST %
13.79%India 8.63%
Household
5.47India 4.85

Work

Workers
32.61%India 39.80%
Female Work
16.63%India 25.52%
Main Workers
48.69%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
67.39%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.

Banshgan in context

With 2,110 people at the 2011 Census, Banshgan was the 276th most populous of its district's 2667 villages, above the district average of 959.

Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1114, 191 above the rural national 923.

32.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 11.6 points below the district's rural rate.