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Paschim Medinipur villages

West Bengal · Paschim Medinipur · Kharagpur - II

Kantagere

473
people at the 2011 Census · 232 male, 241 female

Population

Population
473India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
75.49%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
87.00%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
64.42%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
22.58 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1039 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1031 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
13.74%India 13.59%
SC %
62.79%India 16.63%
ST %
29.18%India 8.63%
Household
4.38India 4.85

Work

Workers
28.75%India 39.80%
Female Work
10.79%India 25.52%
Main Workers
38.97%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
71.25%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.

Kantagere in context

With 473 people at the 2011 Census, Kantagere was the 3445th most populous of its district's 8695 villages, below the district average of 597.

The sex ratio was 1039 women per 1,000 men (74 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 1031, 108 above the rural national 923.

28.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 14.7 points below the district's rural rate.