Jalpaiguri villages
West Bengal · Jalpaiguri · Rajganj
Simulguri
5,973
people at the 2011 Census · 4,315 male, 1,658 female
Population
- Population
- 5,973India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 90.40%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 94.38%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 79.31%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 15.07 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 384 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 756 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 8.09%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 28.75%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 7.73%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.46India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 62.06%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 14.35%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 91.99%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 37.94%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.
Simulguri in context
With 5,973 people at the 2011 Census, Simulguri was the 96th most populous of its district's 733 villages, above the district average of 3,837.
Literacy stood at 90.40%, 20.7 points above the district's rural average of 69.73%.
The sex ratio was 384 women per 1,000 men (573 below the district's rural figure of 957). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 756, 167 below the rural national 923.
62.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 22.1 points above the district's rural rate.