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.

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.

However, in more recent years, Jamshedpur UA "has lacked the growth and development observed around other similar industrial towns in western and southern India.

[2] 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.

Among the civic amenities, it had 4 km (2.5 mi) of roads with open drains, the protected water supply involved tap water from treated sources, tube well/ bore well, overhead tank.