Jaintia Hills
Population
- Population
- 3.95 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 7.20%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 61.64%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 58.14%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 65.06%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- -6.92 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1013 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 976 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 23.01%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.33%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 95.19%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.98India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.02%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 32.86%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 71.75%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.98%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.
Jaintia Hills in context
With 3,95,124 people at the 2011 Census, Jaintia Hills was the 559th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Meghalaya's 7. That is 13.3% of everyone living in Meghalaya at the time.
Literacy stood at 61.64%, 11.3 points below the national 72.98% — 12.8 points below the Meghalaya average. That ranked it 539th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was -6.9 points, 23.2 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1013 women per 1,000 men (24 above the Meghalaya figure of 989) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 976, 58 above the national 918.
Jaintia Hills contained 1 town. The largest was Jowai (M), with 28,430 people. That put 7.2% of the district in urban areas, 12.9 points below the Meghalaya share of 20.1%.
Towns in Jaintia Hills
Jaintia Hills has one census town.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jowai (M) | 28,430 | 91.10% | 1079 / 1000 |