Dangia

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Dangia is a village in the Pulbazar subregion of Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India. It has 1,768 residents living in 396 families, with an average household size of four. The population density is 355 people per square kilometer, and 4% of the land is forest. The nearest town is Darjeeling, about 52 km away.

Of the residents, 895 are male and 873 are female. The caste makeup is 46% General, 11% Scheduled Castes, and 42% Scheduled Tribes. Children aged 6 and under make up 13% of the population. The population has grown about 9.9% in the last ten years.

There are 975 females for every 1,000 males. Among children under 6, there are 1,000 girls for 1,000 boys. About 1,118 people are literate (641 men and 477 women), giving a literacy rate of 72% (82% for men and 63% for women). Male literacy has risen by 7% and female literacy by 10% since the previous census.

Forty-five percent of the people are employed. Among men, 57% have jobs, and among women, 33% do. About 40% of men work as laborers and 16% as minor specialists; among women, 13% are main workers and 20% are peripheral specialists.