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Dumka villages

Jharkhand · Dumka · Jarmundi

Kherwa

625
people at the 2011 Census · 308 male, 317 female

Population

Population
625India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
53.42%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
70.47%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
37.50%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
32.97 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1029 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
833 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
15.84%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
68.80%India 8.63%
Household
4.66India 4.85

Work

Workers
45.60%India 39.80%
Female Work
43.22%India 25.52%
Main Workers
40.00%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
54.40%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.

Kherwa in context

With 625 people at the 2011 Census, Kherwa was the 566th most populous of its district's 2925 villages, above the district average of 421.

Literacy stood at 53.42%, 5.9 points below the district's rural average of 59.28%.

The sex ratio was 1029 women per 1,000 men (46 above the district's rural figure of 983) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 833, 90 below the rural national 923.