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Dakshin Dinajpur villages

West Bengal · Dakshin Dinajpur · Tapan

Pothai

268
people at the 2011 Census · 145 male, 123 female

Population

Population
268India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
84.98%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
87.30%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
82.24%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
5.06 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
848 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
842 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
13.06%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
10.45%India 8.63%
Household
4.79India 4.85

Work

Workers
61.19%India 39.80%
Female Work
56.10%India 25.52%
Main Workers
44.51%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
38.81%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.

Pothai in context

With 268 people at the 2011 Census, Pothai was the 1336th most populous of its district's 1631 villages, below the district average of 883.

Literacy stood at 84.98%, 14.9 points above the district's rural average of 70.10%.

The sex ratio was 848 women per 1,000 men (104 below the district's rural figure of 952). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 842, 81 below the rural national 923.

61.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 18.6 points above the district's rural rate.