Darjiling villages
West Bengal · Darjiling · Matigara
Lachka
1,126
people at the 2011 Census · 559 male, 567 female
Population
- Population
- 1,126India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 70.60%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 79.84%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 61.13%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 18.71 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1014 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1377 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.19%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 98.58%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.00India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 29.13%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 6.35%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 90.24%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 70.87%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.
Lachka in context
With 1,126 people at the 2011 Census, Lachka was the 335th most populous of its district's 688 villages, below the district average of 1,626.
The sex ratio was 1014 women per 1,000 men (41 above the district's rural figure of 973) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1377, 454 above the rural national 923.
29.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.2 points below the district's rural rate.