East Khasi Hills
Population
- Population
- 8.26 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 44.37%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 84.15%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 84.51%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 83.81%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 0.70 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1011 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 964 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.84%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.68%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 80.05%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.03India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.57%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 29.50%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 88.61%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.43%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 Khasi Hills in context
With 8,25,922 people at the 2011 Census, East Khasi Hills was the 478th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Meghalaya's 7. That is 27.8% of everyone living in Meghalaya at the time.
Literacy stood at 84.15%, 11.2 points above the national 72.98% — 9.7 points above the Meghalaya average. That ranked it 86th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 0.7 points, 15.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1011 women per 1,000 men (22 above the Meghalaya figure of 989) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 964, 46 above the national 918.
East Khasi Hills contained 13 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 11 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Shillong (MB), with 1,43,229 people. That put 44.4% of the district in urban areas, 24.3 points above the Meghalaya share of 20.1%.
Towns in East Khasi Hills
East Khasi Hills has 13 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shillong (MB) | 1.43 L | 92.81% | 1042 / 1000 |
| Mawlai (CT) | 55,012 | 91.92% | 1089 / 1000 |
| Nongthymmai (CT) | 38,004 | 93.47% | 1055 / 1000 |
| Madanriting (CT) | 29,194 | 92.03% | 857 / 1000 |
| Pynthormukhrah (CT) | 27,219 | 88.74% | 986 / 1000 |
| Nongmynsong (CT) | 15,017 | 82.42% | 974 / 1000 |
| Shillong (CB) | 11,930 | 85.65% | 727 / 1000 |
| Cherrapunjee (CT) | 11,722 | 92.59% | 1088 / 1000 |