Birbhum villages
West Bengal · Birbhum · Nalhati - I
Basanta
2,004
people at the 2011 Census · 992 male, 1,012 female
Population
- Population
- 2,004India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 82.78%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 87.80%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 77.87%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 9.93 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1020 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1013 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.67%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 14.32%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.15%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.68India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 30.89%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 8.20%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 57.51%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 69.11%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.
Basanta in context
With 2,004 people at the 2011 Census, Basanta was the 441st most populous of its district's 2458 villages, above the district average of 1,242.
Literacy stood at 82.78%, 13.7 points above the district's rural average of 69.10%.
The sex ratio was 1020 women per 1,000 men (65 above the district's rural figure of 955) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1013, 90 above the rural national 923.