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Town including outgrowths · Census 2011 · code 801654
Balurghat population. Households, literacy and work.
A detailed town profile in West Bengal, using the original Primary Census Abstract. Every figure on this page belongs to the source’s 2011 population and geography.
Historical geographic unit. Census 2011 town boundary and classification. The primary total includes the outgrowths (OG) explicitly included in the source name; it is not a municipal-core-only count. This is not a present-day population or an urban-agglomeration total.
The source records 37,949 households and 153,279 residents. These household and person counts are separate measures.
Children aged 0–6 accounted for 7.06% of residents. This historical age group helps describe the age structure in 2011; it does not measure today’s children.
Male literacy was 93.59% and female literacy was 88.62%, each calculated among the corresponding population aged 7 and above.
Of 58,096 Census workers, 87.98% were main workers. Census work includes more than salaried employment.
What kinds of work were recorded?
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Economic activity
Main workers
Marginal workers
Cultivators
260
284
Agricultural labourers
220
253
Household industry workers
1,129
361
Other workers
49,504
6,085
Cultivators, agricultural labourers, household industry workers and other workers are separate Census activity categories. A worker count is not a count of employees on a company payroll.
Using the profile in research
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Definitions, calculation methods and source access
Literacy uses people aged 7 and above; work participation uses all residents. Main workers worked at least six months. Households are the PCA household count, not houses. Rates with zero denominators are unavailable. Names and boundaries belong to Census 2011.
The main profile combines the selected, non-overlapping components. A municipal-core row and its wider row including outgrowths are not added together.
Town proper, excluding outgrowths
The source also supplies a narrower town-proper record. It contains 151,416 people. This component is already inside the wider total and must not be added again.
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Indicator · Census 2011
Total
Males
Females
Populationpeople
151,416
75,794
75,622
Children aged 0–6people aged 0–6
10,677
5,396
5,281
Literate populationliterate people aged 7+
128,328
65,916
62,412
Literacy rate% of the corresponding population aged 7+
91.18%
93.63%
88.73%
Scheduled Castes populationpeople
15,204
7,736
7,468
Scheduled Tribes populationpeople
3,008
1,484
1,524
Total workersCensus workers
57,342
43,399
13,943
Work participation rate% of the corresponding total population