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Ratnagiri villages

Maharashtra · Ratnagiri · Lanja

Palu

763
people at the 2011 Census · 349 male, 414 female

Population

Population
763India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
71.03%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
81.79%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
62.03%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
19.76 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1186 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1111 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
9.96%India 13.59%
SC %
27.65%India 16.63%
ST %
0.13%India 8.63%
Household
4.24India 4.85

Work

Workers
38.27%India 39.80%
Female Work
31.88%India 25.52%
Main Workers
68.84%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
61.73%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.

Palu in context

With 763 people at the 2011 Census, Palu was the 666th most populous of its district's 1537 villages, below the district average of 879.

Literacy stood at 71.03%, 9.1 points below the district's rural average of 80.13%.

The sex ratio was 1186 women per 1,000 men (42 above the district's rural figure of 1144) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1111, 188 above the rural national 923.

38.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 8.2 points below the district's rural rate.