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Chamba villages

Himachal Pradesh · Chamba · Chaurah

Puktala (395)

288
people at the 2011 Census · 141 male, 147 female

Population

Population
288India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
63.36%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
74.17%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
51.79%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
22.38 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1043 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1667 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
19.44%India 13.59%
SC %
24.65%India 16.63%
ST %
13.54%India 8.63%
Household
5.14India 4.85

Work

Workers
29.86%India 39.80%
Female Work
14.97%India 25.52%
Main Workers
54.65%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
70.14%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.

Puktala (395) in context

With 288 people at the 2011 Census, Puktala (395) was the 675th most populous of its district's 1591 villages, below the district average of 304.

Literacy stood at 63.36%, 7.2 points below the district's rural average of 70.60%.

The sex ratio was 1043 women per 1,000 men (47 above the district's rural figure of 996) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1667, 744 above the rural national 923.

29.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 28.3 points below the district's rural rate.