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Puruliya villages

West Bengal · Puruliya · Jhalda - I

Kalma

2,536
people at the 2011 Census · 1,338 male, 1,198 female

Population

Population
2,536India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
67.33%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
83.30%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
49.56%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
33.74 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
895 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
871 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
14.31%India 13.59%
SC %
14.91%India 16.63%
ST %
47.12%India 8.63%
Household
4.84India 4.85

Work

Workers
51.50%India 39.80%
Female Work
45.49%India 25.52%
Main Workers
60.80%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
48.50%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 in context

With 2,536 people at the 2011 Census, Kalma was the 182nd most populous of its district's 2667 villages, above the district average of 959.

The sex ratio was 895 women per 1,000 men (65 below the district's rural figure of 960). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 871, 52 below the rural national 923.