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Pashchimi Singhbhum villages

Jharkhand · Pashchimi Singhbhum · Chakradharpur

Barfia

1,286
people at the 2011 Census · 642 male, 644 female

Population

Population
1,286India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
61.04%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
79.89%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
42.67%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
37.22 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1003 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
891 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
16.17%India 13.59%
SC %
11.35%India 16.63%
ST %
50.47%India 8.63%
Household
4.78India 4.85

Work

Workers
39.19%India 39.80%
Female Work
31.06%India 25.52%
Main Workers
78.37%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
60.81%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.

Barfia in context

With 1,286 people at the 2011 Census, Barfia was the 266th most populous of its district's 1673 villages, above the district average of 768.

Literacy stood at 61.04%, 6.7 points above the district's rural average of 54.31%.

The sex ratio was 1003 women per 1,000 men (11 below the district's rural figure of 1014) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 891, 32 below the rural national 923.

39.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.6 points below the district's rural rate.