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Giridih villages

Jharkhand · Giridih · Gawan

Gawan

7,458
people at the 2011 Census · 3,917 male, 3,541 female

Population

Population
7,458India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
67.02%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
78.14%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
54.59%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
23.55 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
904 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
943 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
19.33%India 13.59%
SC %
14.12%India 16.63%
ST %
0.50%India 8.63%
Household
5.76India 4.85

Work

Workers
33.40%India 39.80%
Female Work
15.36%India 25.52%
Main Workers
79.00%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
66.60%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.

Gawan in context

With 7,458 people at the 2011 Census, Gawan was the 11th most populous of its district's 2749 villages, above the district average of 814.

Literacy stood at 67.02%, 5.5 points above the district's rural average of 61.55%.

33.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 10.2 points below the district's rural rate.