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Tamil Nadu districts

Tamil Nadu

Chennai

46,46,732
people at the 2011 Census · 23.36 L male, 23.11 L female

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.

Largest towns in Chennai by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Chennai (M Corp.)46.47 L90.18%989 / 1000