West District villages
Sikkim · West District · Gyalshing
Gerethang
1,236
people at the 2011 Census · 633 male, 603 female
Population
- Population
- 1,236India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 85.90%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.74%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 79.77%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.97 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 953 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 955 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.92%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 4.61%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 69.09%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.17India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 50.81%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 50.58%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 71.66%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 49.19%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.
Gerethang in context
With 1,236 people at the 2011 Census, Gerethang was the 43rd most populous of its district's 125 villages, above the district average of 1,049.
Literacy stood at 85.90%, 9.0 points above the district's rural average of 76.90%.
Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 955, 32 above the rural national 923.