East District villages
Sikkim · East District · Gangtok
Shotak
1,541
people at the 2011 Census · 1,251 male, 290 female
Population
- Population
- 1,541India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 88.15%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.71%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 71.32%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.39 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 232 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1000 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 4.15%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.71%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 19.14%India 8.63%
- Household
- 7.37India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 78.91%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 31.72%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 81.50%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 21.09%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.
Shotak in context
With 1,541 people at the 2011 Census, Shotak was the 39th most populous of its district's 123 villages, above the district average of 1,310.
Literacy stood at 88.15%, 8.2 points above the district's rural average of 79.99%.
The sex ratio was 232 women per 1,000 men (617 below the district's rural figure of 849). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1000, 77 above the rural national 923.
78.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 24.9 points above the district's rural rate.