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Punjab · Hoshiarpur · Hoshiarpur

Kharkan (502)

2,529
people at the 2011 Census · 1,547 male, 982 female

Population

Population
2,529India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
89.11%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
92.94%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
82.92%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
10.02 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
635 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
800 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
9.25%India 13.59%
SC %
21.71%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
6.97India 4.85

Work

Workers
62.55%India 39.80%
Female Work
40.43%India 25.52%
Main Workers
88.62%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
37.45%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.

Kharkan (502) in context

With 2,529 people at the 2011 Census, Kharkan (502) was the 71st most populous of its district's 1416 villages, above the district average of 884.

Literacy stood at 89.11%, 5.4 points above the district's rural average of 83.74%.

The sex ratio was 635 women per 1,000 men (338 below the district's rural figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 800, 123 below the rural national 923.

62.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 31.8 points above the district's rural rate.