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Puruliya villages

West Bengal · Puruliya · Kashipur

Simla

2,530
people at the 2011 Census · 1,254 male, 1,276 female

Population

Population
2,530India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
68.76%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
80.18%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
57.70%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
22.48 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1018 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
918 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
12.06%India 13.59%
SC %
7.04%India 16.63%
ST %
53.68%India 8.63%
Household
4.84India 4.85

Work

Workers
46.92%India 39.80%
Female Work
40.67%India 25.52%
Main Workers
56.44%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
53.08%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.

Simla in context

With 2,530 people at the 2011 Census, Simla was the 184th most populous of its district's 2667 villages, above the district average of 959.

Literacy stood at 68.76%, 6.0 points above the district's rural average of 62.73%.

The sex ratio was 1018 women per 1,000 men (58 above the district's rural figure of 960) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men.