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Meghalaya districts

Meghalaya

West Garo Hills

6,43,291
people at the 2011 Census · 3.24 L male, 3.19 L female

Population

Population
6.43 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
11.64%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
67.58%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
72.39%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
62.70%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
9.69 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
984 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
976 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.49%India 13.59%
SC %
1.37%India 16.63%
ST %
73.69%India 8.63%
Household
5.22India 4.85

Work

Workers
39.75%India 39.80%
Female Work
32.52%India 25.52%
Main Workers
73.67%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
60.25%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.

West Garo Hills in context

With 6,43,291 people at the 2011 Census, West Garo Hills was the 513th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Meghalaya's 7. That is 21.7% of everyone living in Meghalaya at the time.

Literacy stood at 67.58%, 5.4 points below the national 72.98% — 6.9 points below the Meghalaya average. That ranked it 434th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 9.7 points, 6.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 984 women per 1,000 men (5 below the Meghalaya figure of 989). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 976, 58 above the national 918.

West Garo Hills contained 1 town. The largest was Tura (M), with 74,858 people. That put 11.6% of the district in urban areas, 8.4 points below the Meghalaya share of 20.1%.

Towns in West Garo Hills

West Garo Hills has one census town.

Largest towns in West Garo Hills by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Tura (M)74,85891.33%1010 / 1000