Darjiling villages
West Bengal · Darjiling · Matigara
Kalam
5,664
people at the 2011 Census · 3,280 male, 2,384 female
Population
- Population
- 5,664India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 84.80%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 90.82%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 76.36%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 14.46 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 727 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 860 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.77%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 16.08%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 7.63%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.58India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 41.10%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 14.72%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 93.60%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 58.90%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.
Kalam in context
With 5,664 people at the 2011 Census, Kalam was the 26th most populous of its district's 688 villages, above the district average of 1,626.
Literacy stood at 84.80%, 10.5 points above the district's rural average of 74.27%.
The sex ratio was 727 women per 1,000 men (246 below the district's rural figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 860, 63 below the rural national 923.