Jammu and Kashmir · Leh(Ladakh) · Leh
Shey
Population
- Population
- 2,238India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 78.95%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 82.33%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 76.07%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 6.26 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1117 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 760 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.48%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 86.46%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.62India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 25.96%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 16.17%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 65.58%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 74.04%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.
Shey in context
With 2,238 people at the 2011 Census, Shey was the 4th most populous of its district's 112 villages, above the district average of 784.
Literacy stood at 78.95%, 6.8 points above the district's rural average of 72.10%.
The sex ratio was 1117 women per 1,000 men (303 above the district's rural figure of 814) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 760, 163 below the rural national 923.
26.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 29.1 points below the district's rural rate.