East Khasi Hills villages
Meghalaya · East Khasi Hills · Pynursla
Wahkhen
1,347
people at the 2011 Census · 671 male, 676 female
Population
- Population
- 1,347India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 72.66%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 73.76%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 71.59%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 2.17 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1007 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 924 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 20.71%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 99.93%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.90India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 48.78%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 48.82%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 99.85%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 51.22%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.
Wahkhen in context
With 1,347 people at the 2011 Census, Wahkhen was the 61st most populous of its district's 975 villages, above the district average of 471.
Literacy stood at 72.66%, 5.1 points below the district's rural average of 77.73%.
The sex ratio was 1007 women per 1,000 men (level with the district's rural figure of 1011) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men.