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West Khasi Hills villages

Meghalaya · West Khasi Hills · Mawshynrut

Songsak

686
people at the 2011 Census · 336 male, 350 female

Population

Population
686India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
61.19%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
70.76%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
52.19%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
18.57 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1042 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
990 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
29.01%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
99.85%India 8.63%
Household
5.16India 4.85

Work

Workers
24.64%India 39.80%
Female Work
7.14%India 25.52%
Main Workers
79.29%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
75.36%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.

Songsak in context

With 686 people at the 2011 Census, Songsak was the 99th most populous of its district's 1115 villages, above the district average of 305.

Literacy stood at 61.19%, 15.4 points below the district's rural average of 76.54%.

The sex ratio was 1042 women per 1,000 men (68 above the district's rural figure of 974) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 990, 67 above the rural national 923.

24.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 19.0 points below the district's rural rate.