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Paschim Medinipur villages

West Bengal · Paschim Medinipur · Nayagram

Jharia

735
people at the 2011 Census · 354 male, 381 female

Population

Population
735India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
62.13%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
75.16%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
50.15%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
25.01 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1076 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1000 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.97%India 13.59%
SC %
14.56%India 16.63%
ST %
24.90%India 8.63%
Household
3.85India 4.85

Work

Workers
56.46%India 39.80%
Female Work
49.87%India 25.52%
Main Workers
39.76%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
43.54%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.

Jharia in context

With 735 people at the 2011 Census, Jharia was the 2177th most populous of its district's 8695 villages, above the district average of 597.

Literacy stood at 62.13%, 14.7 points below the district's rural average of 76.87%.

The sex ratio was 1076 women per 1,000 men (111 above the district's rural figure of 965) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1000, 77 above the rural national 923.

56.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.0 points above the district's rural rate.