West Khasi Hills
Population
- Population
- 3.83 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 11.24%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 77.87%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 78.53%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 77.19%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 1.34 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 980 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 967 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 22.74%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.04%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 97.82%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.91India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 42.60%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 38.82%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 73.34%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 57.40%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 Khasi Hills in context
With 3,83,461 people at the 2011 Census, West Khasi Hills was the 562nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Meghalaya's 7. That is 12.9% of everyone living in Meghalaya at the time.
Literacy stood at 77.87%, 4.9 points above the national 72.98% — 3.4 points above the Meghalaya average. That ranked it 203rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 1.3 points, 14.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 980 women per 1,000 men (9 below the Meghalaya figure of 989). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 967, 49 above the national 918.
Female work participation was 38.8%, 6.1 points above the state figure.
West Khasi Hills contained 2 towns. The largest was Nongstoin (TC), with 28,742 people. That put 11.2% of the district in urban areas, 8.8 points below the Meghalaya share of 20.1%.
Towns in West Khasi Hills
West Khasi Hills has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nongstoin (TC) | 28,742 | 87.93% | 1017 / 1000 |
| Mairang (TC) | 14,363 | 88.20% | 1028 / 1000 |