Hoshangabad villages
Madhya Pradesh · Hoshangabad · Seoni-Malwa
Dhekna
1,074
people at the 2011 Census · 542 male, 532 female
Population
- Population
- 1,074India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 54.31%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 66.28%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 41.94%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 24.34 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 982 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1038 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 20.11%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.56%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 86.78%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.90India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 27.56%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 7.71%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 88.18%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 72.44%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.
Dhekna in context
With 1,074 people at the 2011 Census, Dhekna was the 247th most populous of its district's 961 villages, above the district average of 886.
Literacy stood at 54.31%, 15.5 points below the district's rural average of 69.83%.
The sex ratio was 982 women per 1,000 men (69 above the district's rural figure of 913). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1038, 115 above the rural national 923.
27.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.8 points below the district's rural rate.