Purnia villages
Shekhpura
1,492
people at the 2011 Census · 745 male, 747 female
Population
- Population
- 1,492India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 44.83%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 48.64%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 40.75%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.89 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1003 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1162 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 33.18%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.99India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 22.59%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 4.42%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 99.70%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 77.41%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.
Shekhpura in context
With 1,492 people at the 2011 Census, Shekhpura was the 582nd most populous of its district's 1273 villages, below the district average of 2,295.
The sex ratio was 1003 women per 1,000 men (80 above the district's rural figure of 923) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1162, 239 above the rural national 923.
22.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.1 points below the district's rural rate.