Jaintia Hills villages
Meghalaya · Jaintia Hills · Laskein
Mowkaiaw
2,842
people at the 2011 Census · 1,376 male, 1,466 female
Population
- Population
- 2,842India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 84.74%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 80.68%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 88.60%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- -7.92 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1065 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1149 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 16.78%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.18%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 99.26%India 8.63%
- Household
- 6.37India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 32.09%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 20.12%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 78.62%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 67.91%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.
Mowkaiaw in context
With 2,842 people at the 2011 Census, Mowkaiaw was the 18th most populous of its district's 537 villages, above the district average of 683.
Literacy stood at 84.74%, 25.7 points above the district's rural average of 59.05%.
The sex ratio was 1065 women per 1,000 men (57 above the district's rural figure of 1008) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1149, 226 above the rural national 923.