West Bengal · Puruliya · Neturia
Shalchura
Population
- Population
- 195India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 46.34%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 59.26%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 33.73%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 25.53 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1074 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1385 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 15.90%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.69%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 76.92%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.13India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 21.54%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 1.98%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 38.10%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 78.46%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.
Shalchura in context
With 195 people at the 2011 Census, Shalchura was the 2202nd most populous of its district's 2667 villages, below the district average of 959.
Literacy stood at 46.34%, 16.4 points below the district's rural average of 62.73%.
The sex ratio was 1074 women per 1,000 men (114 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 1385, 462 above the rural national 923.
21.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 22.7 points below the district's rural rate.