East District villages
Sikkim · East District · Gangtok
Byang
495
people at the 2011 Census · 253 male, 242 female
Population
- Population
- 495India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 73.46%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 76.36%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 70.51%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 5.85 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 957 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 758 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.72%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 8.48%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 54.75%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.38India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 77.17%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 78.93%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 45.81%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 22.83%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.
Byang in context
With 495 people at the 2011 Census, Byang was the 87th most populous of its district's 123 villages, below the district average of 1,310.
Literacy stood at 73.46%, 6.5 points below the district's rural average of 79.99%.
The sex ratio was 957 women per 1,000 men (108 above the district's rural figure of 849). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 758, 165 below the rural national 923.
77.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 23.2 points above the district's rural rate.