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Maldah villages

West Bengal · Maldah · Gazole

Khanta

587
people at the 2011 Census · 279 male, 308 female

Population

Population
587India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
50.83%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
61.90%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
40.64%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
21.26 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1104 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1188 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.89%India 13.59%
SC %
53.83%India 16.63%
ST %
29.13%India 8.63%
Household
4.41India 4.85

Work

Workers
52.30%India 39.80%
Female Work
42.21%India 25.52%
Main Workers
66.12%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
47.70%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.

Khanta in context

With 587 people at the 2011 Census, Khanta was the 1137th most populous of its district's 1772 villages, below the district average of 1,945.

Literacy stood at 50.83%, 8.5 points below the district's rural average of 59.37%.

The sex ratio was 1104 women per 1,000 men (155 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 1188, 265 above the rural national 923.

52.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.6 points above the district's rural rate.