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Paschim Medinipur villages

West Bengal · Paschim Medinipur · Jhargram

Pukharia

958
people at the 2011 Census · 485 male, 473 female

Population

Population
958India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
71.68%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
82.08%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
61.19%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
20.89 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
975 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
869 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.90%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
31.73%India 8.63%
Household
4.06India 4.85

Work

Workers
31.94%India 39.80%
Female Work
8.03%India 25.52%
Main Workers
89.87%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
68.06%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.

Pukharia in context

With 958 people at the 2011 Census, Pukharia was the 1528th most populous of its district's 8695 villages, above the district average of 597.

Literacy stood at 71.68%, 5.2 points below the district's rural average of 76.87%.

Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 869, 54 below the rural national 923.

31.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 11.6 points below the district's rural rate.