West Garo Hills
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.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tura (M) | 74,858 | 91.33% | 1010 / 1000 |