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Chamba villages

Himachal Pradesh · Chamba · Saluni

Purhan (120)

490
people at the 2011 Census · 246 male, 244 female

Population

Population
490India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
64.58%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
77.99%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
50.97%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
27.02 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
992 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1027 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
15.31%India 13.59%
SC %
43.27%India 16.63%
ST %
14.49%India 8.63%
Household
5.44India 4.85

Work

Workers
69.80%India 39.80%
Female Work
70.49%India 25.52%
Main Workers
35.09%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
30.20%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.

Purhan (120) in context

With 490 people at the 2011 Census, Purhan (120) was the 371st most populous of its district's 1591 villages, above the district average of 304.

Literacy stood at 64.58%, 6.0 points below the district's rural average of 70.60%.

Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1027, 104 above the rural national 923.

69.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 11.6 points above the district's rural rate.