Purihasa
Purihasa is a census town in the Golmuri-cum-Jugsalai CD block in the Dhalbhum subdivision of the Purbi Singhbhum district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
Geography
Location
Purihasa is located at.| Rainfall | Temperature | Temperature |
| 1030.2 | 45.8 | 10 |
Jamshedpur Urban Agglomeration
With its recognition as an industrial town as early as the 1911 census, Jamshedpur was set on the road of steady population growth, as large number of emigrants flocked in for work opportunities. While in the earlier decades the central nucleus grew, in the later decades towns around Jamshedpur grew rapidly. In 2011, Jamshedpur Urban Agglomeration included 13 urban centres, with a total population of 1.3 million people. However, in more recent years, Jamshedpur UA "has lacked the growth and development observed around other similar industrial towns in western and southern India."Civic administration
Sundarnagar police station serves the area.Demographics
According to the 2011 Census, Purihasa town had a total of 1,711 households and a population of 7,897, with 51.3% males and 48.7% females. The Scheduled Caste population comprised 101 of the total, while the Scheduled Tribe population constituted 5,081 of the population. Of the total population, 63.6% were literate, while 36.4% were illiterate. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 1,141, leaving this group the literate persons in Purihasa was 5,025. The town had 31.1% of its population engaged in some form of work, with 27.2% being main workers and 3.7% marginal workers. There were 68.9% non-workers, with 26.4% being male and 42.5% female.Purihasa census town is part of Jamshedpur Urban Agglomeration, which includes: Jamshedpur, Jamshedpur, Tata Nagar Railway Colony, Mango, Jugsalai, Bagbera, Chhota Gobindpur, Haludbani, Sarjamda, Gadhra, Ghorabandha, Adityapur, Chota Gamahria and Kapali.