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Koraput villages

Odisha · Koraput · Machh kund

Palam

483
people at the 2011 Census · 225 male, 258 female

Population

Population
483India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
14.07%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
23.63%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
6.02%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
17.61 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1147 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
977 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.60%India 13.59%
SC %
21.53%India 16.63%
ST %
51.97%India 8.63%
Household
3.38India 4.85

Work

Workers
63.15%India 39.80%
Female Work
65.89%India 25.52%
Main Workers
0.66%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
36.85%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.

Palam in context

With 483 people at the 2011 Census, Palam was the 737th most populous of its district's 2042 villages, below the district average of 565.

Literacy stood at 14.07%, 28.3 points below the district's rural average of 42.37%.

The sex ratio was 1147 women per 1,000 men (101 above the district's rural figure of 1046) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 977, 54 above the rural national 923.

63.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 10.2 points above the district's rural rate.