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Maldah villages

West Bengal · Maldah · Habibpur

Karanja

880
people at the 2011 Census · 419 male, 461 female

Population

Population
880India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
17.15%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
20.73%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
13.97%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
6.76 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1100 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
968 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
13.86%India 13.59%
SC %
0.23%India 16.63%
ST %
90.45%India 8.63%
Household
4.68India 4.85

Work

Workers
52.50%India 39.80%
Female Work
44.69%India 25.52%
Main Workers
54.55%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
47.50%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.

Karanja in context

With 880 people at the 2011 Census, Karanja was the 928th most populous of its district's 1772 villages, below the district average of 1,945.

Literacy stood at 17.15%, 42.2 points below the district's rural average of 59.37%.

The sex ratio was 1100 women per 1,000 men (151 above the district's rural figure of 949) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 968, 45 above the rural national 923.

52.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.8 points above the district's rural rate.