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Simdega villages

Jharkhand · Simdega · Bano

Pohshar

590
people at the 2011 Census · 282 male, 308 female

Population

Population
590India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
61.27%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
77.82%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
45.38%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
32.44 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1092 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1372 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.29%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
51.02%India 8.63%
Household
4.61India 4.85

Work

Workers
63.56%India 39.80%
Female Work
61.69%India 25.52%
Main Workers
33.07%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
36.44%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.

Pohshar in context

With 590 people at the 2011 Census, Pohshar was the 315th most populous of its district's 450 villages, below the district average of 1,237.

Literacy stood at 61.27%, 5.3 points below the district's rural average of 66.59%.

The sex ratio was 1092 women per 1,000 men (93 above the district's rural figure of 999) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1372, 449 above the rural national 923.

63.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 14.1 points above the district's rural rate.