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Barait Population - Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal

Barait is a medium size village located in Kumarganj Block of Dakshin Dinajpur district, West Bengal with total 348 families residing. The Barait village has population of 1424 of which 760 are males while 664 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Barait village population of children with age 0-6 is 115 which makes up 8.08 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Barait village is 874 which is lower than West Bengal state average of 950. Child Sex Ratio for the Barait as per census is 691, lower than West Bengal average of 956.

Barait village has higher literacy rate compared to West Bengal. In 2011, literacy rate of Barait village was 94.27 % compared to 76.26 % of West Bengal. In Barait Male literacy stands at 96.39 % while female literacy rate was 91.90 %.

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

Barait Data

Particulars Total Male Female
Total No. of Houses 348 - -
Population 1,424 760 664
Child (0-6) 115 68 47
Schedule Caste 3 1 2
Schedule Tribe 0 0 0
Literacy 94.27 % 96.39 % 91.90 %
Total Workers 471 443 28
Main Worker 456 - -
Marginal Worker 15 14 1

Caste Factor

Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 0.21 % of total population in Barait village. The village Barait currently doesn’t have any Schedule Tribe (ST) population.

Work Profile

In Barait village out of total population, 471 were engaged in work activities. 96.82 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 3.18 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 471 workers engaged in Main Work, 333 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 11 were Agricultural labourer.