Uttar Dinajpur villages
West Bengal · Uttar Dinajpur · Goalpokhar - I
Basta
1,839
people at the 2011 Census · 960 male, 879 female
Population
- Population
- 1,839India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 33.23%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 38.62%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 27.20%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.42 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 916 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1027 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.20%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.65%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.07India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 27.41%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 7.05%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 51.59%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 72.59%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.
Basta in context
With 1,839 people at the 2011 Census, Basta was the 482nd most populous of its district's 1494 villages, above the district average of 1,770.
Literacy stood at 33.23%, 22.8 points below the district's rural average of 55.99%.
Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1027, 104 above the rural national 923.
27.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 8.7 points below the district's rural rate.