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Arwal villages

Bihar · Arwal · Kurtha

Nighwan

7,279
people at the 2011 Census · 3,715 male, 3,564 female

Population

Population
7,279India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
61.20%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
71.70%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
50.03%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
21.67 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
959 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1053 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.57%India 13.59%
SC %
21.07%India 16.63%
ST %
0.01%India 8.63%
Household
5.90India 4.85

Work

Workers
32.49%India 39.80%
Female Work
19.64%India 25.52%
Main Workers
61.10%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
67.51%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.

Nighwan in context

With 7,279 people at the 2011 Census, Nighwan was the 10th most populous of its district's 316 villages, above the district average of 2,054.

Literacy stood at 61.20%, 5.6 points below the district's rural average of 66.79%.

Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1053, 130 above the rural national 923.