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Dumka villages

Jharkhand · Dumka · Ramgarh

Kanj

1,350
people at the 2011 Census · 707 male, 643 female

Population

Population
1,350India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
67.20%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
79.51%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
54.14%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
25.37 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
909 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
763 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.11%India 13.59%
SC %
30.67%India 16.63%
ST %
0.96%India 8.63%
Household
4.96India 4.85

Work

Workers
31.78%India 39.80%
Female Work
15.55%India 25.52%
Main Workers
63.64%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
68.22%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.

Kanj in context

With 1,350 people at the 2011 Census, Kanj was the 103rd most populous of its district's 2925 villages, above the district average of 421.

Literacy stood at 67.20%, 7.9 points above the district's rural average of 59.28%.

The sex ratio was 909 women per 1,000 men (74 below the district's rural figure of 983). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 763, 160 below the rural national 923.

31.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 16.7 points below the district's rural rate.