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Jowai (M) wards

Meghalaya · Jaintia Hills · Jowai (M)

Jowai (M) WARD NO.-0004

1,854
people at the 2011 Census · 887 male, 967 female

Population

Population
1,854India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
85.90%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
85.81%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
85.98%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
-0.17 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1090 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
881 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
12.78%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
94.55%India 8.63%
Household
4.67India 4.85

Work

Workers
40.88%India 39.80%
Female Work
38.68%India 25.52%
Main Workers
71.37%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
59.12%India 60.20%

Figures cover this ward as a subdivision of its census town and share the town’s urban classification. Density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract. See Methodology.

Jowai (M) WARD NO.-0004 in context

With 1,854 people at the 2011 Census, Jowai (M) WARD NO.-0004 was the 9th most populous of Jowai (M)'s 13 wards. That is 6.5% of Jowai (M)'s population.

Literacy stood at 85.90%, 1.8 points above the urban national average of 84.11% — 5.2 points below Jowai (M)'s 91.10%. The gap between male and female literacy was -0.2 points, 9.8 points below the urban national gap of 9.7.

The sex ratio was 1090 women per 1,000 men (11 above Jowai (M)'s 1079) — one of the minority of wards where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 881, 24 below the urban national 905.

40.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.3 points above Jowai (M)'s rate.