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Purba Medinipur villages

West Bengal · Purba Medinipur · Potashpur - I

Kalma Ghat

1,290
people at the 2011 Census · 626 male, 664 female

Population

Population
1,290India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
81.45%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
87.89%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
75.35%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
12.54 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1061 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1086 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
13.10%India 13.59%
SC %
0.70%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
4.20India 4.85

Work

Workers
45.12%India 39.80%
Female Work
30.87%India 25.52%
Main Workers
64.78%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
54.88%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.

Kalma Ghat in context

With 1,290 people at the 2011 Census, Kalma Ghat was the 1168th most populous of its district's 2998 villages, below the district average of 1,502.

Literacy stood at 81.45%, 5.4 points below the district's rural average of 86.81%.

The sex ratio was 1061 women per 1,000 men (122 above the district's rural figure of 939) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1086, 163 above the rural national 923.