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Puruliya villages

West Bengal · Puruliya · Bundwan

Kantagora

737
people at the 2011 Census · 354 male, 383 female

Population

Population
737India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
51.45%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
65.00%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
38.82%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
26.18 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1082 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1130 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
15.60%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
92.40%India 8.63%
Household
4.79India 4.85

Work

Workers
55.36%India 39.80%
Female Work
52.22%India 25.52%
Main Workers
37.99%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
44.64%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.

Kantagora in context

With 737 people at the 2011 Census, Kantagora was the 1255th most populous of its district's 2667 villages, below the district average of 959.

Literacy stood at 51.45%, 11.3 points below the district's rural average of 62.73%.

The sex ratio was 1082 women per 1,000 men (122 above the district's rural figure of 960) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1130, 207 above the rural national 923.

55.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 11.1 points above the district's rural rate.