Kalahandi villages
Odisha · Kalahandi · Dharamgarh
Merghara
1,135
people at the 2011 Census · 591 male, 544 female
Population
- Population
- 1,135India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 64.02%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 77.04%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 49.79%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 27.25 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 920 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 969 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.10%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 14.27%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 24.41%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.02India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 38.41%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 22.06%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 77.06%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 61.59%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.
Merghara in context
With 1,135 people at the 2011 Census, Merghara was the 410th most populous of its district's 2253 villages, above the district average of 646.
Literacy stood at 64.02%, 6.7 points above the district's rural average of 57.28%.
The sex ratio was 920 women per 1,000 men (88 below the district's rural figure of 1008). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 969, 46 above the rural national 923.
38.4% of the population were recorded as workers, 10.3 points below the district's rural rate.