
Social well-being is the degree to which the requirement and demands of an individual being met. The Phenomenon of social well-being is an aggregation of an individual’s level of welfare, which includes the aspects like physical, material, social economic perception and spiritual well-being. Paschim Medinipur district is one of the backward regions in West Bengal. It has 29 Community Development Blocks and 8 municipalities. The specific objective of the present study is to analyze the level of social well-being of Paschim Medinipur district, C.D Block-wise as per 2011 Census. The Present Study is entirely based on secondary sources of data. The secondary data are collected from District Census Handbook of Paschim Medinipur district, 2011; Houselisting and Housing Census in India, West Bengal, 2011 and District Statistical Handbook of Paschim Mednipur, 2014. Different statistical techniques like Z-Score, Composite Score, Kendall’s Ranking Method, Simple Percentage Calculation, Rate, Ratio are also applied here to measure the quality of well-being of rural blocks in Paschim Medinipur district.