West Garo Hills villages
Meghalaya · West Garo Hills · Selsella
Silkata
1,708
people at the 2011 Census · 858 male, 850 female
Population
- Population
- 1,708India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 24.33%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 29.26%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 19.45%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 9.81 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 991 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 929 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 23.95%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.77India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 27.22%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 10.94%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 71.18%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 72.78%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.
Silkata in context
With 1,708 people at the 2011 Census, Silkata was the 23rd most populous of its district's 1663 villages, above the district average of 342.
Literacy stood at 24.33%, 39.9 points below the district's rural average of 64.21%.
27.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.6 points below the district's rural rate.