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Meghalaya districts

Meghalaya

East Garo Hills

3,17,917
people at the 2011 Census · 1.61 L male, 1.57 L female

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.

Largest towns in East Garo Hills by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Williamnagar (MB)24,59788.98%931 / 1000
Resubelpara (MB)19,59591.66%1015 / 1000