Hugli villages
West Bengal · Hugli · Pandua
Shikhira
951
people at the 2011 Census · 494 male, 457 female
Population
- Population
- 951India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 68.20%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 76.17%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 59.67%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.50 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 925 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 844 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 8.73%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 49.42%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 24.92%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.76India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 48.79%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 35.23%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 92.67%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 51.21%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.
Shikhira in context
With 951 people at the 2011 Census, Shikhira was the 1251st most populous of its district's 1866 villages, below the district average of 1,817.
Literacy stood at 68.20%, 10.3 points below the district's rural average of 78.53%.
Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 844, 79 below the rural national 923.
48.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 8.3 points above the district's rural rate.