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Puruliya villages

West Bengal · Puruliya · Neturia

Mahishnadi

884
people at the 2011 Census · 438 male, 446 female

Population

Population
884India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
66.10%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
80.05%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
52.33%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
27.72 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1018 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1053 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
13.24%India 13.59%
SC %
50.23%India 16.63%
ST %
28.39%India 8.63%
Household
6.01India 4.85

Work

Workers
34.05%India 39.80%
Female Work
14.57%India 25.52%
Main Workers
12.96%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
65.95%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.

Mahishnadi in context

With 884 people at the 2011 Census, Mahishnadi was the 1057th most populous of its district's 2667 villages, below the district average of 959.

The sex ratio was 1018 women per 1,000 men (58 above the district's rural figure of 960) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1053, 130 above the rural national 923.

34.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 10.2 points below the district's rural rate.