Paschim Medinipur villages
West Bengal · Paschim Medinipur · Keshpur
Shankhapur
2,243
people at the 2011 Census · 1,170 male, 1,073 female
Population
- Population
- 2,243India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 82.82%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 88.13%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 76.97%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.16 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 917 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 980 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.33%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 3.34%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.39India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 30.94%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 2.80%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 74.35%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 69.06%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.
Shankhapur in context
With 2,243 people at the 2011 Census, Shankhapur was the 381st most populous of its district's 8695 villages, above the district average of 597.
Literacy stood at 82.82%, 6.0 points above the district's rural average of 76.87%.
Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 980, 57 above the rural national 923.
30.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 12.6 points below the district's rural rate.