Bankura villages
West Bengal · Bankura · Khatra
Benkia
498
people at the 2011 Census · 242 male, 256 female
Population
- Population
- 498India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 54.09%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 69.44%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 39.29%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 30.15 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1058 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1231 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.65%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 52.01%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 47.99%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.29India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 41.97%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 35.55%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 68.90%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 58.03%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.
Benkia in context
With 498 people at the 2011 Census, Benkia was the 2246th most populous of its district's 3823 villages, below the district average of 862.
Literacy stood at 54.09%, 14.8 points below the district's rural average of 68.93%.
The sex ratio was 1058 women per 1,000 men (102 above the district's rural figure of 956) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1231, 308 above the rural national 923.