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Bokaro villages

Jharkhand · Bokaro · Nawadih

Palamu

5,379
people at the 2011 Census · 2,760 male, 2,619 female

Population

Population
5,379India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
52.14%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
63.70%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
39.76%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
23.94 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
949 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1024 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.31%India 13.59%
SC %
16.64%India 16.63%
ST %
21.70%India 8.63%
Household
5.48India 4.85

Work

Workers
29.11%India 39.80%
Female Work
14.81%India 25.52%
Main Workers
53.70%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
70.89%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.

Palamu in context

With 5,379 people at the 2011 Census, Palamu was the 27th most populous of its district's 635 villages, above the district average of 1,699.

Literacy stood at 52.14%, 11.4 points below the district's rural average of 63.50%.

Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1024, 101 above the rural national 923.

29.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.2 points below the district's rural rate.