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Purba Medinipur villages

West Bengal · Purba Medinipur · Potashpur - I

Bar Shankar

1,827
people at the 2011 Census · 930 male, 897 female

Population

Population
1,827India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
89.83%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
93.71%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
85.79%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
7.92 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
965 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
990 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.22%India 13.59%
SC %
21.24%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
4.80India 4.85

Work

Workers
47.13%India 39.80%
Female Work
31.88%India 25.52%
Main Workers
37.51%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
52.87%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.

Bar Shankar in context

With 1,827 people at the 2011 Census, Bar Shankar was the 804th most populous of its district's 2998 villages, above the district average of 1,502.

Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 990, 67 above the rural national 923.

47.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.0 points above the district's rural rate.