Prayagpur is a census town in the Kanksa CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
According to the 2011 census, 79.22% of the population of the Durgapur subdivision was urban and 20.78% was rural. The sole municipal corporation in the Durgapur subdivision is located at Durgapur and the subdivision has 38 (+1 partly) census towns (partly presented in the map alongside; all places marked on the map are linked in the full-screen map).
According to the 2011 Census of India, Prayagpur had a total population of 4,479, of which 2,254 (51%) were males and 2,225 (49%) were females. Population in the age range 0âÂÂ6 years was 439. The total number of literate persons in Prayagpur was 3,307 (81.86% of the population over 6 years).
India census, Prayagpur had a population of 5149. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Prayagpur has an average literacy rate of 66%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 57%. In Prayagpur, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.
According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Bardhaman, Prayagpur covered an area of 2.59 km<sup>2</sup>. Among the civic amenities, it had 11 km roads, with both open and covered drains, the protected water-supply involved tap water from treated source, hand pump. It had 700 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 1 dispensary/ health centre, 4 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had was 1 primary schools, other school facilities at Kanksa 6 km away. It had 1 non-formal education centre (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan). Among the social, recreational, cultural facilities it had 1 public library and 1 reading room.
Prayagpur has one primary school.
Panagarh Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, at Panagarh, is the major government medical facility in the Kanksa CD block.