Chennai
Population
- Population
- 46.47 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 100.00%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 90.18%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 93.70%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 86.64%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.06 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 989 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 950 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.88%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 16.78%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.22%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.02India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.11%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.39%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 89.12%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.89%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.
Chennai in context
With 46,46,732 people at the 2011 Census, Chennai was the 29th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 6.4% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 90.18%, 17.2 points above the national 72.98% — 10.1 points above the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 20th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.1 points, 9.2 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 989 women per 1,000 men (7 below the Tamil Nadu figure of 996). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 950, 32 above the national 918.
39.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.5 points below the Tamil Nadu rate. Female work participation was 19.4%, 12.4 points below the state figure.
Chennai contained 1 town. The largest was Chennai (M Corp.), with 46,46,732 people. That put 100.0% of the district in urban areas, 51.6 points above the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Chennai
Chennai has one census town.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chennai (M Corp.) | 46.47 L | 90.18% | 989 / 1000 |