Charpokhari (also spelled Charpokhri) is a village and corresponding
community development block
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in
Bhojpur district of
Bihar
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,
India
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.
As of 2011, its population was 1,874, in 314 households. The total block population was 101,363, in 15,961 households.
Demographics
Charpokhari is a rural subdistrict with no large urban centres. As of 2011, the block's
sex ratio
A sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which reproduce sexually. However, many species deviate from an even sex ratio, ei ...
was 927, which was higher than both the overall Bhojpur district ratio of 907 and the rural-specific Bhojpur district ratio of 910. The sex ratio was lower in the 0-6 age group, with 916 females for every 1000 males, which was slightly below the district's overall (918) and rural (920) sex ratios in this age group. Members of
scheduled castes made up 21.44% of the block's population (the highest proportion in Bhojpur) and members of
scheduled tribes made up 0.02% (the lowest in Bhojpur). The
literacy rate
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of Charpokhari block was 68.86%, which was lower than the district rate of 70.47%. Literacy was higher in men (81.91%) than in women (54.83%), with the corresponding 27.08% gender gap somewhat exceeding that of the district as a whole (23.71%).
Most of Charpokhari block's workforce in 2011 was employed in
agriculture
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, with 30.70% of workers being cultivators who owned or leased their own land and another 49.89% being agricultural labourers who worked someone else's land for wages. 4.49% were household industry workers, and the remaining 14.92% were other workers. Most workers in the block were men: 24,011, compared to 6,646 women.
Villages
Charpokhari block contains the following 90 villages:
References
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Villages in Bhojpur district, India