South Garo Hills
Population
- Population
- 1.42 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 9.23%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 71.72%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 76.23%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 66.90%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 9.33 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 945 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 974 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 19.61%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.22%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 94.31%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.80India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 37.28%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 29.27%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 72.35%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 62.72%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.
South Garo Hills in context
With 1,42,334 people at the 2011 Census, South Garo Hills was the 602nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Meghalaya's 7. That is 4.8% of everyone living in Meghalaya at the time.
Literacy stood at 71.72%, 1.3 points below the national 72.98% — 2.7 points below the Meghalaya average. That ranked it 332nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 9.3 points, 6.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 945 women per 1,000 men (44 below the Meghalaya figure of 989). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 974, 56 above the national 918.
South Garo Hills contained 1 town. The largest was Baghmara (MB), with 13,131 people. That put 9.2% of the district in urban areas, 10.8 points below the Meghalaya share of 20.1%.
Towns in South Garo Hills
South Garo Hills has one census town.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baghmara (MB) | 13,131 | 89.79% | 960 / 1000 |