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Meghalaya districts

Meghalaya

Ribhoi

2,58,840
people at the 2011 Census · 1.33 L male, 1.26 L female

Population

Population
2.59 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
9.76%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
75.67%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
76.79%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
74.49%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
2.30 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
953 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
953 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
20.42%India 13.59%
SC %
0.23%India 16.63%
ST %
88.89%India 8.63%
Household
5.52India 4.85

Work

Workers
41.13%India 39.80%
Female Work
33.73%India 25.52%
Main Workers
85.35%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
58.87%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.

Ribhoi in context

With 2,58,840 people at the 2011 Census, Ribhoi was the 580th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Meghalaya's 7. That is 8.7% of everyone living in Meghalaya at the time.

Literacy stood at 75.67%, 2.7 points above the national 72.98% — 1.2 points above the Meghalaya average. That ranked it 246th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 2.3 points, 13.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 953 women per 1,000 men (36 below the Meghalaya figure of 989). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 953, 35 above the national 918.

Ribhoi contained 2 towns — 1 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Nongpoh (TC), with 17,055 people. That put 9.8% of the district in urban areas, 10.3 points below the Meghalaya share of 20.1%.

Towns in Ribhoi

Ribhoi has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Ribhoi by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Nongpoh (TC)17,05582.56%998 / 1000
Umroi (CT)8,19891.16%550 / 1000