Saraikela-Kharsawan villages
Jharkhand · Saraikela-Kharsawan · Saraikela
Murkum
1,234
people at the 2011 Census · 609 male, 625 female
Population
- Population
- 1,234India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 55.65%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 70.39%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 42.10%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 28.29 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1026 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 794 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 18.31%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.05%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 75.20%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.77India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 44.81%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 38.72%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 79.57%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 55.19%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.
Murkum in context
With 1,234 people at the 2011 Census, Murkum was the 148th most populous of its district's 1184 villages, above the district average of 681.
Literacy stood at 55.65%, 7.9 points below the district's rural average of 63.53%.
The sex ratio was 1026 women per 1,000 men (54 above the district's rural figure of 972) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 794, 129 below the rural national 923.