Puruliya villages
West Bengal · Puruliya · Para
Gahira
1,231
people at the 2011 Census · 618 male, 613 female
Population
- Population
- 1,231India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 56.48%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 68.70%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 44.68%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 24.02 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 992 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 791 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.00%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 69.29%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.45India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 35.99%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 16.97%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 38.60%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 64.01%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.
Gahira in context
With 1,231 people at the 2011 Census, Gahira was the 690th most populous of its district's 2667 villages, above the district average of 959.
Literacy stood at 56.48%, 6.3 points below the district's rural average of 62.73%.
Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 791, 132 below the rural national 923.
36.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 8.2 points below the district's rural rate.