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Jashpur villages

Chhattisgarh · Jashpur · Kansabel

Pongro

2,812
people at the 2011 Census · 1,392 male, 1,420 female

Population

Population
2,812India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
73.15%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
82.86%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
63.87%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
18.99 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1020 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
862 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
12.98%India 13.59%
SC %
10.81%India 16.63%
ST %
40.11%India 8.63%
Household
4.08India 4.85

Work

Workers
40.79%India 39.80%
Female Work
22.89%India 25.52%
Main Workers
87.36%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
59.21%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.

Pongro in context

With 2,812 people at the 2011 Census, Pongro was the 34th most populous of its district's 755 villages, above the district average of 1,027.

Literacy stood at 73.15%, 6.8 points above the district's rural average of 66.33%.

The sex ratio was 1020 women per 1,000 men (12 above the district's rural figure of 1008) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 862, 61 below the rural national 923.

40.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 18.5 points below the district's rural rate.