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Kargil villages

Jammu and Kashmir · Kargil · Kargil

Matayan

500
people at the 2011 Census · 247 male, 253 female

Population

Population
500India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
65.69%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
80.77%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
50.25%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
30.52 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1024 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1282 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.80%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
99.40%India 8.63%
Household
8.06India 4.85

Work

Workers
21.20%India 39.80%
Female Work
4.74%India 25.52%
Main Workers
46.23%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
78.80%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.

Matayan in context

With 500 people at the 2011 Census, Matayan was the 85th most populous of its district's 127 villages, below the district average of 980.

The sex ratio was 1024 women per 1,000 men (186 above the district's rural figure of 838) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1282, 359 above the rural national 923.

21.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 14.5 points below the district's rural rate.