West Garo Hills villages
Meghalaya · West Garo Hills · Selsella
Balachanda
240
people at the 2011 Census · 118 male, 122 female
Population
- Population
- 240India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 65.90%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 69.44%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 62.39%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.05 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1034 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1300 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.58%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 3.75%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 95.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.71India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 54.17%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 52.46%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 33.85%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 45.83%India 60.20%
This village is classified entirely rural at the 2011 Census, so urban population share does not apply. Density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract. See Methodology.
Balachanda in context
With 240 people at the 2011 Census, Balachanda was the 853rd most populous of its district's 1663 villages, below the district average of 342.
The sex ratio was 1034 women per 1,000 men (53 above the district's rural figure of 981) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1300, 377 above the rural national 923.
54.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.3 points above the district's rural rate.