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Gaya villages

Bihar · Gaya · Gaya Town C.D.Block

Sherpur

1,839
people at the 2011 Census · 915 male, 924 female

Population

Population
1,839India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
59.93%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
65.65%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
53.98%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
11.67 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1010 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1189 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
23.33%India 13.59%
SC %
23.00%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
7.45India 4.85

Work

Workers
34.15%India 39.80%
Female Work
22.08%India 25.52%
Main Workers
26.91%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
65.85%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 1,839 people at the 2011 Census, Sherpur was the 650th most populous of its district's 2886 villages, above the district average of 1,320.

The sex ratio was 1010 women per 1,000 men (67 above the district's rural figure of 943) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1189, 266 above the rural national 923.