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Puruliya villages

West Bengal · Puruliya · Puncha

Penchara

2,614
people at the 2011 Census · 1,344 male, 1,270 female

Population

Population
2,614India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
67.97%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
81.83%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
53.30%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
28.53 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
945 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
947 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
14.00%India 13.59%
SC %
9.41%India 16.63%
ST %
11.09%India 8.63%
Household
5.60India 4.85

Work

Workers
57.92%India 39.80%
Female Work
56.06%India 25.52%
Main Workers
72.85%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
42.08%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.

Penchara in context

With 2,614 people at the 2011 Census, Penchara was the 171st most populous of its district's 2667 villages, above the district average of 959.

Literacy stood at 67.97%, 5.2 points above the district's rural average of 62.73%.

57.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.7 points above the district's rural rate.