Purbi Singhbhum villages
Jharkhand · Purbi Singhbhum · Ghatshila
Chekam
237
people at the 2011 Census · 123 male, 114 female
Population
- Population
- 237India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 55.78%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 68.00%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 43.43%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 24.57 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 927 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 652 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.03%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 72.57%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.02India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 61.60%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 64.04%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 47.95%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 38.40%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.
Chekam in context
With 237 people at the 2011 Census, Chekam was the 1187th most populous of its district's 1748 villages, below the district average of 583.
Literacy stood at 55.78%, 7.1 points below the district's rural average of 62.86%.
The sex ratio was 927 women per 1,000 men (54 below the district's rural figure of 981). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 652, 271 below the rural national 923.
61.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 17.8 points above the district's rural rate.