Kathua villages
Jammu and Kashmir · Kathua · Kathua
Merth
1,795
people at the 2011 Census · 921 male, 874 female
Population
- Population
- 1,795India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 80.55%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 88.02%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 72.94%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 15.08 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 949 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 784 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.21%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 24.12%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.81India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 25.91%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 3.78%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 75.70%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 74.09%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.
Merth in context
With 1,795 people at the 2011 Census, Merth was the 94th most populous of its district's 512 villages, above the district average of 1,029.
Literacy stood at 80.55%, 9.7 points above the district's rural average of 70.83%.
The sex ratio was 949 women per 1,000 men (55 above the district's rural figure of 894). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 784, 139 below the rural national 923.