Sherpur Population - Gaya, Bihar

Sherpur is a medium size village located in Gurua Block of Gaya district, Bihar with total 218 families residing. The Sherpur village has population of 1386 of which 733 are males while 653 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Sherpur village population of children with age 0-6 is 290 which makes up 20.92 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Sherpur village is 891 which is lower than Bihar state average of 918. Child Sex Ratio for the Sherpur as per census is 946, higher than Bihar average of 935.

Sherpur village has higher literacy rate compared to Bihar. In 2011, literacy rate of Sherpur village was 67.70 % compared to 61.80 % of Bihar. In Sherpur Male literacy stands at 77.23 % while female literacy rate was 56.84 %.

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Sherpur village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Sherpur village.

Sherpur Data

Particulars	Total	Male	Female
Total No. of Houses	218	-	-
Population	1,386	733	653
Child (0-6)	290	149	141
Schedule Caste	650	330	320
Schedule Tribe	0	0	0
Literacy	67.70 %	77.23 %	56.84 %
Total Workers	612	343	269
Main Worker	593	-	-
Marginal Worker	19	9	10

Caste Factor

In Sherpur village, most of the villagers are from Schedule Caste (SC). Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 46.90 % of total population in Sherpur village. The village Sherpur currently doesn’t have any Schedule Tribe (ST) population.

Work Profile

In Sherpur village out of total population, 612 were engaged in work activities. 96.90 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 3.10 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 612 workers engaged in Main Work, 88 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 405 were Agricultural labourer.