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Uttara Kannada villages

Karnataka · Uttara Kannada · Kumta

Urkeri

877
people at the 2011 Census · 428 male, 449 female

Population

Population
877India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
89.29%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
93.92%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
84.80%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
9.12 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1049 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1242 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
8.44%India 13.59%
SC %
17.33%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
4.28India 4.85

Work

Workers
30.79%India 39.80%
Female Work
6.90%India 25.52%
Main Workers
84.81%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
69.21%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.

Urkeri in context

With 877 people at the 2011 Census, Urkeri was the 311th most populous of its district's 1289 villages, above the district average of 790.

Literacy stood at 89.29%, 8.0 points above the district's rural average of 81.31%.

The sex ratio was 1049 women per 1,000 men (72 above the district's rural figure of 977) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1242, 319 above the rural national 923.

30.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 14.7 points below the district's rural rate.