South District villages
Sikkim · South District · Namchi
Mellidara
1,670
people at the 2011 Census · 815 male, 855 female
Population
- Population
- 1,670India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 79.12%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.49%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 74.90%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 8.59 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1049 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1171 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.10%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 3.71%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 27.49%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.94India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.28%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 28.07%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 45.43%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.72%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.
Mellidara in context
With 1,670 people at the 2011 Census, Mellidara was the 12th most populous of its district's 148 villages, above the district average of 849.
The sex ratio was 1049 women per 1,000 men (141 above the district's rural figure of 908) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1171, 248 above the rural national 923.
39.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.9 points below the district's rural rate.