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Anantnag villages

Jammu and Kashmir · Anantnag · Bijbehara

Now Shehra

1,788
people at the 2011 Census · 883 male, 905 female

Population

Population
1,788India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
61.07%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
82.02%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
40.49%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
41.53 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1025 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1056 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
18.40%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
6.82India 4.85

Work

Workers
53.02%India 39.80%
Female Work
52.27%India 25.52%
Main Workers
31.65%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
46.98%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.

Now Shehra in context

With 1,788 people at the 2011 Census, Now Shehra was the 167th most populous of its district's 342 villages, below the district average of 2,327.

The sex ratio was 1025 women per 1,000 men (89 above the district's rural figure of 936) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1056, 133 above the rural national 923.

53.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 15.8 points above the district's rural rate.