Ariyalur
Population
- Population
- 7.55 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 11.10%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 71.34%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 81.23%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 61.74%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 19.49 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1015 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 897 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.75%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 23.34%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.42%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.83India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 47.67%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 38.74%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 75.65%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 52.33%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.
Ariyalur in context
With 7,54,894 people at the 2011 Census, Ariyalur was the 491st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 30th most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 1.0% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 71.34%, 1.6 points below the national 72.98% — 8.8 points below the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 343rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.5 points, 3.2 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1015 women per 1,000 men (19 above the Tamil Nadu figure of 996) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 897, 21 below the national 918.
Female work participation was 38.7%, 6.9 points above the state figure.
Ariyalur contained 4 towns. The largest was Jayankondam (M), with 33,945 people. That put 11.1% of the district in urban areas, 37.3 points below the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Ariyalur
Ariyalur has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jayankondam (M) | 33,945 | 80.34% | 1031 / 1000 |
| Ariyalur (M) | 28,902 | 84.77% | 1014 / 1000 |
| Udayarpalayam (TP) | 12,688 | 78.78% | 1017 / 1000 |
| Varadarajanpettai (TP) | 8,259 | 77.93% | 1018 / 1000 |