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Gaya villages

Bihar · Gaya · Wazirganj

Sowa

1,275
people at the 2011 Census · 652 male, 623 female

Population

Population
1,275India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
15.10%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
18.37%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
11.67%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
6.70 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
956 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
965 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.41%India 13.59%
SC %
92.39%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
7.54India 4.85

Work

Workers
62.04%India 39.80%
Female Work
62.28%India 25.52%
Main Workers
97.85%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
37.96%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.

Sowa in context

With 1,275 people at the 2011 Census, Sowa was the 1043rd most populous of its district's 2886 villages, below the district average of 1,320.

Literacy stood at 15.10%, 45.9 points below the district's rural average of 61.01%.

Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 965, 42 above the rural national 923.

62.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 23.1 points above the district's rural rate.