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Purbi Singhbhum villages

Jharkhand · Purbi Singhbhum · Potka

Goalkata

1,455
people at the 2011 Census · 704 male, 751 female

Population

Population
1,455India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
42.06%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
56.09%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
28.87%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
27.22 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1067 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1083 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.32%India 13.59%
SC %
37.11%India 16.63%
ST %
59.38%India 8.63%
Household
4.33India 4.85

Work

Workers
34.16%India 39.80%
Female Work
18.51%India 25.52%
Main Workers
26.16%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
65.84%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.

Goalkata in context

With 1,455 people at the 2011 Census, Goalkata was the 132nd most populous of its district's 1748 villages, above the district average of 583.

Literacy stood at 42.06%, 20.8 points below the district's rural average of 62.86%.

The sex ratio was 1067 women per 1,000 men (86 above the district's rural figure of 981) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1083, 160 above the rural national 923.

34.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.7 points below the district's rural rate.