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Varanasi villages

Uttar Pradesh · Varanasi · Varanasi

Purashiv

340
people at the 2011 Census · 177 male, 163 female

Population

Population
340India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
78.73%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
90.00%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
67.10%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
22.90 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
921 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
471 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
7.35%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
7.39India 4.85

Work

Workers
26.76%India 39.80%
Female Work
3.68%India 25.52%
Main Workers
70.33%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
73.24%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.

Purashiv in context

With 340 people at the 2011 Census, Purashiv was the 1050th most populous of its district's 1295 villages, below the district average of 1,606.

Literacy stood at 78.73%, 5.4 points above the district's rural average of 73.38%.

Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 471, 452 below the rural national 923.