East Garo Hills
Population
- Population
- 3.18 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 13.90%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 73.95%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 77.72%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 70.05%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.67 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 972 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 980 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 18.27%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.16%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 95.99%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.45India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.66%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 34.34%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 66.58%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.34%India 60.20%
Population density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract and so are unavailable at district level. See Methodology.
East Garo Hills in context
With 3,17,917 people at the 2011 Census, East Garo Hills was the 569th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 5th most populous of Meghalaya's 7. That is 10.7% of everyone living in Meghalaya at the time.
Literacy stood at 73.95%, 1.0 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Meghalaya average. That ranked it 280th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.7 points, 8.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 972 women per 1,000 men (17 below the Meghalaya figure of 989). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 980, 62 above the national 918.
East Garo Hills contained 2 towns. The largest was Williamnagar (MB), with 24,597 people. That put 13.9% of the district in urban areas, 6.2 points below the Meghalaya share of 20.1%.
Towns in East Garo Hills
East Garo Hills has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williamnagar (MB) | 24,597 | 88.98% | 931 / 1000 |
| Resubelpara (MB) | 19,595 | 91.66% | 1015 / 1000 |