Jaisalmer villages
Rajasthan · Jaisalmer · Pokaran
Purohitsar
721
people at the 2011 Census · 350 male, 371 female
Population
- Population
- 721India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 61.55%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 76.30%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 47.54%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 28.76 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1060 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1088 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 23.16%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 3.47%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.87India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 45.35%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 45.82%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 34.56%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 54.65%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.
Purohitsar in context
With 721 people at the 2011 Census, Purohitsar was the 286th most populous of its district's 799 villages, below the district average of 727.
Literacy stood at 61.55%, 7.8 points above the district's rural average of 53.80%.
The sex ratio was 1060 women per 1,000 men (201 above the district's rural figure of 859) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1088, 165 above the rural national 923.