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Kerala districts

Kerala

Alappuzha

21,27,789
people at the 2011 Census · 10.13 L male, 11.15 L female

Population

Population
21.28 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
53.96%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
95.72%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
97.36%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
94.24%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
3.12 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1100 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
951 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
9.03%India 13.59%
SC %
9.46%India 16.63%
ST %
0.31%India 8.63%
Household
3.97India 4.85

Work

Workers
37.81%India 39.80%
Female Work
24.02%India 25.52%
Main Workers
74.13%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
62.19%India 60.20%

Population density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract and so are unavailable at district level. See Methodology.

Alappuzha in context

With 21,27,789 people at the 2011 Census, Alappuzha was the 215th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Kerala's 14. That is 6.4% of everyone living in Kerala at the time.

Literacy stood at 95.72%, 22.7 points above the national 72.98% — 1.7 points above the Kerala average. That ranked it 8th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 3.1 points, 13.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1100 women per 1,000 men (16 above the Kerala figure of 1084) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 951, 33 above the national 918.

37.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.0 points above the Kerala rate. Female work participation was 24.0%, 5.8 points above the state figure.

Alappuzha contained 38 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 33 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Alappuzha (M), with 1,74,176 people. That put 54.0% of the district in urban areas, 6.3 points above the Kerala share of 47.7%.

Towns in Alappuzha

Alappuzha has 38 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Alappuzha by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Alappuzha (M)1.74 L96.20%1077 / 1000
Kayamkulam (M)68,63494.81%1094 / 1000
Komalapuram (CT)47,12696.47%1054 / 1000
Cherthala (M)45,82797.02%1065 / 1000
Aroor (CT)39,21495.81%1018 / 1000
Mannanchery (CT)32,13995.06%1060 / 1000
Thanneermukkam (CT)31,52596.13%1054 / 1000
Pallippuram (CT)28,27695.10%1035 / 1000
All 38 towns in Alappuzha