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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.