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Jaintia Hills villages

Meghalaya · Jaintia Hills · Khliehriat

Tongseng

486
people at the 2011 Census · 230 male, 256 female

Population

Population
486India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
52.51%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
52.32%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
52.66%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
-0.34 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1113 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
620 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
26.34%India 13.59%
SC %
0.21%India 16.63%
ST %
98.77%India 8.63%
Household
5.59India 4.85

Work

Workers
26.54%India 39.80%
Female Work
19.53%India 25.52%
Main Workers
95.35%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
73.46%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.

Tongseng in context

With 486 people at the 2011 Census, Tongseng was the 232nd most populous of its district's 537 villages, below the district average of 683.

Literacy stood at 52.51%, 6.5 points below the district's rural average of 59.05%.

The sex ratio was 1113 women per 1,000 men (105 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 620, 303 below the rural national 923.

26.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 12.6 points below the district's rural rate.