Puruliya villages
West Bengal · Puruliya · Para
Chalka
215
people at the 2011 Census · 115 male, 100 female
Population
- Population
- 215India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 77.22%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 86.46%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 66.67%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 19.79 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 870 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 842 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.28%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 99.07%India 8.63%
- Household
- 7.41India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 55.81%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 55.00%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 3.33%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 44.19%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.
Chalka in context
With 215 people at the 2011 Census, Chalka was the 2174th most populous of its district's 2667 villages, below the district average of 959.
Literacy stood at 77.22%, 14.5 points above the district's rural average of 62.73%.
The sex ratio was 870 women per 1,000 men (90 below the district's rural figure of 960). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 842, 81 below the rural national 923.
55.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 11.6 points above the district's rural rate.