Birbhum villages
West Bengal · Birbhum · Mohammad Bazar
Heruka
2,139
people at the 2011 Census · 1,061 male, 1,078 female
Population
- Population
- 2,139India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 74.31%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 78.06%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 70.53%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.53 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1016 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1231 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.85%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 9.86%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.96%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.19India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 31.65%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 6.49%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 32.35%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 68.35%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.
Heruka in context
With 2,139 people at the 2011 Census, Heruka was the 400th most populous of its district's 2458 villages, above the district average of 1,242.
Literacy stood at 74.31%, 5.2 points above the district's rural average of 69.10%.
The sex ratio was 1016 women per 1,000 men (61 above the district's rural figure of 955) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1231, 308 above the rural national 923.