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Dakshin Dinajpur villages

West Bengal · Dakshin Dinajpur · Kushmundi

Mahishakuri

450
people at the 2011 Census · 223 male, 227 female

Population

Population
450India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
42.74%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
49.47%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
36.13%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
13.34 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1018 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1029 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
15.78%India 13.59%
SC %
24.89%India 16.63%
ST %
74.00%India 8.63%
Household
4.09India 4.85

Work

Workers
57.33%India 39.80%
Female Work
56.83%India 25.52%
Main Workers
68.60%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
42.67%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.

Mahishakuri in context

With 450 people at the 2011 Census, Mahishakuri was the 1053rd most populous of its district's 1631 villages, below the district average of 883.

Literacy stood at 42.74%, 27.4 points below the district's rural average of 70.10%.

The sex ratio was 1018 women per 1,000 men (66 above the district's rural figure of 952) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1029, 106 above the rural national 923.

57.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 14.7 points above the district's rural rate.