Purbi Singhbhum villages
Jharkhand · Purbi Singhbhum · Musabani
Merhiya
1,519
people at the 2011 Census · 743 male, 776 female
Population
- Population
- 1,519India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 63.91%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 77.37%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 51.53%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 25.84 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1044 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 802 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.17%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 2.70%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 57.41%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.30India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 38.12%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 24.74%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 8.64%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 61.88%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.
Merhiya in context
With 1,519 people at the 2011 Census, Merhiya was the 117th most populous of its district's 1748 villages, above the district average of 583.
The sex ratio was 1044 women per 1,000 men (63 above the district's rural figure of 981) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 802, 121 below the rural national 923.