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Dumka villages

Jharkhand · Dumka · Masalia

Beljhar

281
people at the 2011 Census · 137 male, 144 female

Population

Population
281India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
42.86%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
56.60%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
30.51%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
26.09 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1051 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
839 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
20.28%India 13.59%
SC %
0.71%India 16.63%
ST %
96.80%India 8.63%
Household
4.26India 4.85

Work

Workers
70.82%India 39.80%
Female Work
74.31%India 25.52%
Main Workers
6.03%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
29.18%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.

Beljhar in context

With 281 people at the 2011 Census, Beljhar was the 1596th most populous of its district's 2925 villages, below the district average of 421.

Literacy stood at 42.86%, 16.4 points below the district's rural average of 59.28%.

The sex ratio was 1051 women per 1,000 men (68 above the district's rural figure of 983) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 839, 84 below the rural national 923.

70.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 22.3 points above the district's rural rate.