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Purnia villages

Bihar · Purnia · Kasba

Jalkar

1,191
people at the 2011 Census · 588 male, 603 female

Population

Population
1,191India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
60.62%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
68.49%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
52.49%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
16.00 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1026 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1268 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
21.33%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
4.92India 4.85

Work

Workers
26.36%India 39.80%
Female Work
6.97%India 25.52%
Main Workers
22.61%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
73.64%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.

Jalkar in context

With 1,191 people at the 2011 Census, Jalkar was the 648th most populous of its district's 1273 villages, below the district average of 2,295.

Literacy stood at 60.62%, 12.2 points above the district's rural average of 48.38%.

The sex ratio was 1026 women per 1,000 men (103 above the district's rural figure of 923) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1268, 345 above the rural national 923.

26.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.3 points below the district's rural rate.