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Shimoga villages

Karnataka · Shimoga · Sorab

Shigga

1,559
people at the 2011 Census · 778 male, 781 female

Population

Population
1,559India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
82.74%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
90.64%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
74.90%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
15.74 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1004 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
968 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
7.83%India 13.59%
SC %
4.49%India 16.63%
ST %
0.38%India 8.63%
Household
3.97India 4.85

Work

Workers
62.28%India 39.80%
Female Work
59.28%India 25.52%
Main Workers
98.56%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
37.72%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.

Shigga in context

With 1,559 people at the 2011 Census, Shigga was the 164th most populous of its district's 1530 villages, above the district average of 738.

Literacy stood at 82.74%, 6.4 points above the district's rural average of 76.37%.

The sex ratio was 1004 women per 1,000 men (9 above the district's rural figure of 995) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 968, 45 above the rural national 923.

62.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.2 points above the district's rural rate.