Purbi Singhbhum villages
Jharkhand · Purbi Singhbhum · Potka
Dhengam
1,136
people at the 2011 Census · 565 male, 571 female
Population
- Population
- 1,136India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 48.61%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 64.19%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 33.54%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 30.65 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1011 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 907 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 17.96%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.39%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 88.20%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.44India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 33.71%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 23.99%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 4.18%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 66.29%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.
Dhengam in context
With 1,136 people at the 2011 Census, Dhengam was the 231st most populous of its district's 1748 villages, above the district average of 583.
Literacy stood at 48.61%, 14.2 points below the district's rural average of 62.86%.
The sex ratio was 1011 women per 1,000 men (30 above the district's rural figure of 981) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men.
33.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 10.1 points below the district's rural rate.