Purba Medinipur villages
West Bengal · Purba Medinipur · Potashpur - I
Purulia
472
people at the 2011 Census · 252 male, 220 female
Population
- Population
- 472India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 91.88%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 93.89%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 89.60%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 4.29 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 873 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 783 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 8.69%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.33India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 62.08%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 61.36%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 51.88%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 37.92%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.
Purulia in context
With 472 people at the 2011 Census, Purulia was the 2313th most populous of its district's 2998 villages, below the district average of 1,502.
Literacy stood at 91.88%, 5.1 points above the district's rural average of 86.81%.
The sex ratio was 873 women per 1,000 men (66 below the district's rural figure of 939). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 783, 140 below the rural national 923.
62.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 24.0 points above the district's rural rate.