Purbi Singhbhum villages
Jharkhand · Purbi Singhbhum · Potka
Potka
1,770
people at the 2011 Census · 935 male, 835 female
Population
- Population
- 1,770India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 80.18%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 90.54%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 68.31%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 22.23 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 893 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1033 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.90%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 4.41%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 12.49%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.88India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.92%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 12.57%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 55.66%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.08%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.
Potka in context
With 1,770 people at the 2011 Census, Potka was the 80th most populous of its district's 1748 villages, above the district average of 583.
Literacy stood at 80.18%, 17.3 points above the district's rural average of 62.86%.
The sex ratio was 893 women per 1,000 men (88 below the district's rural figure of 981). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1033, 110 above the rural national 923.
34.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 8.9 points below the district's rural rate.