Puruliya villages
West Bengal · Puruliya · Jhalda - I
Merend
759
people at the 2011 Census · 376 male, 383 female
Population
- Population
- 759India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 69.90%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 87.23%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 53.22%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 34.01 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1019 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 872 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.59%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 2.11%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.71India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 44.14%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 32.64%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 41.49%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 55.86%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.
Merend in context
With 759 people at the 2011 Census, Merend was the 1222nd most populous of its district's 2667 villages, below the district average of 959.
Literacy stood at 69.90%, 7.2 points above the district's rural average of 62.73%.
The sex ratio was 1019 women per 1,000 men (59 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 872, 51 below the rural national 923.