Lum Population - North Sikkim, Sikkim

Lum is a medium size village located in Mangan Sub Division of North Sikkim district, Sikkim with total 53 families residing. The Lum village has population of 331 of which 167 are males while 164 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Lum village population of children with age 0-6 is 53 which makes up 16.01 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Lum village is 982 which is higher than Sikkim state average of 890. Child Sex Ratio for the Lum as per census is 559, lower than Sikkim average of 957.

Lum village has lower literacy rate compared to Sikkim. In 2011, literacy rate of Lum village was 74.82 % compared to 81.42 % of Sikkim. In Lum Male literacy stands at 81.95 % while female literacy rate was 68.28 %.

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Lum 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 Lum village.

Lum Data

Particulars	Total	Male	Female
Total No. of Houses	53	-	-
Population	331	167	164
Child (0-6)	53	34	19
Schedule Caste	0	0	0
Schedule Tribe	329	166	163
Literacy	74.82 %	81.95 %	68.28 %
Total Workers	152	77	75
Main Worker	149	-	-
Marginal Worker	3	0	3

Caste Factor

In Lum village, most of the village population is from Schedule Tribe (ST). Schedule Tribe (ST) constitutes 99.40 % of total population in Lum village. There is no population of Schedule Caste (SC) in Lum village of North Sikkim.

Work Profile

In Lum village out of total population, 152 were engaged in work activities. 98.03 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 1.97 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 152 workers engaged in Main Work, 139 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 1 were Agricultural labourer.