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Puruliya villages

West Bengal · Puruliya · Barabazar

Hijla

1,005
people at the 2011 Census · 490 male, 515 female

Population

Population
1,005India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
71.97%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
79.52%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
64.57%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
14.95 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1051 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1229 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
15.52%India 13.59%
SC %
4.08%India 16.63%
ST %
24.08%India 8.63%
Household
5.29India 4.85

Work

Workers
59.60%India 39.80%
Female Work
57.86%India 25.52%
Main Workers
30.05%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
40.40%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.

Hijla in context

With 1,005 people at the 2011 Census, Hijla was the 911th most populous of its district's 2667 villages, above the district average of 959.

Literacy stood at 71.97%, 9.2 points above the district's rural average of 62.73%.

The sex ratio was 1051 women per 1,000 men (91 above the district's rural figure of 960) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1229, 306 above the rural national 923.

59.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 15.4 points above the district's rural rate.