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Jammu villages

Jammu and Kashmir · Jammu · Jammu

Handwal

306
people at the 2011 Census · 169 male, 137 female

Population

Population
306India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
62.65%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
77.54%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
45.38%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
32.16 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
811 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
581 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
16.01%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
96.08%India 8.63%
Household
5.37India 4.85

Work

Workers
57.84%India 39.80%
Female Work
56.20%India 25.52%
Main Workers
48.02%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
42.16%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.

Handwal in context

With 306 people at the 2011 Census, Handwal was the 615th most populous of its district's 852 villages, below the district average of 898.

Literacy stood at 62.65%, 15.6 points below the district's rural average of 78.24%.

The sex ratio was 811 women per 1,000 men (94 below the district's rural figure of 905). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 581, 342 below the rural national 923.

57.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 26.9 points above the district's rural rate.