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Nalanda villages

Bihar · Nalanda · Asthawan

Sherpur

1,925
people at the 2011 Census · 1,028 male, 897 female

Population

Population
1,925India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
74.04%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
88.41%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
56.86%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
31.55 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
873 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1139 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
13.56%India 13.59%
SC %
32.26%India 16.63%
ST %
0.31%India 8.63%
Household
7.32India 4.85

Work

Workers
35.22%India 39.80%
Female Work
22.07%India 25.52%
Main Workers
98.97%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
64.78%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.

Sherpur in context

With 1,925 people at the 2011 Census, Sherpur was the 434th most populous of its district's 1055 villages, below the district average of 2,294.

Literacy stood at 74.04%, 11.6 points above the district's rural average of 62.44%.

The sex ratio was 873 women per 1,000 men (51 below the district's rural figure of 924). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1139, 216 above the rural national 923.