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Puruliya villages

West Bengal · Puruliya · Jhalda - II

Rahan

626
people at the 2011 Census · 301 male, 325 female

Population

Population
626India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
48.69%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
61.24%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
36.96%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
24.28 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1080 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1140 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
14.70%India 13.59%
SC %
10.38%India 16.63%
ST %
9.42%India 8.63%
Household
4.82India 4.85

Work

Workers
25.88%India 39.80%
Female Work
1.85%India 25.52%
Main Workers
16.05%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
74.12%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.

Rahan in context

With 626 people at the 2011 Census, Rahan was the 1433rd most populous of its district's 2667 villages, below the district average of 959.

Literacy stood at 48.69%, 14.0 points below the district's rural average of 62.73%.

The sex ratio was 1080 women per 1,000 men (120 above the district's rural figure of 960) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1140, 217 above the rural national 923.

25.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 18.3 points below the district's rural rate.