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Chatra villages

Jharkhand · Chatra · Pathalgora

Chontha

1,040
people at the 2011 Census · 550 male, 490 female

Population

Population
1,040India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
67.76%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
81.76%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
52.05%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
29.71 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
891 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
893 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
15.29%India 13.59%
SC %
25.10%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
4.64India 4.85

Work

Workers
54.33%India 39.80%
Female Work
57.14%India 25.52%
Main Workers
49.38%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
45.67%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.

Chontha in context

With 1,040 people at the 2011 Census, Chontha was the 289th most populous of its district's 1471 villages, above the district average of 666.

Literacy stood at 67.76%, 9.0 points above the district's rural average of 58.78%.

The sex ratio was 891 women per 1,000 men (68 below the district's rural figure of 959). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 893, 30 below the rural national 923.

54.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 15.5 points above the district's rural rate.