Chittoor
Population
- Population
- 41.74 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 29.50%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 71.53%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 79.83%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 63.28%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.55 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 997 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 931 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.65%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 18.82%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 3.81%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.01India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 46.32%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 35.09%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 86.37%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 53.68%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.
Chittoor in context
With 41,74,064 people at the 2011 Census, Chittoor was the 47th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Andhra Pradesh's 23. That is 4.9% of everyone living in Andhra Pradesh at the time.
Literacy stood at 71.53%, 1.5 points below the national 72.98% — 4.5 points above the Andhra Pradesh average. That ranked it 338th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.6 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 997 women per 1,000 men (level with the Andhra Pradesh figure of 993).
Chittoor contained 22 towns — 8 with a municipal body of some kind, and 14 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Tirupati (M Corp.), with 2,87,482 people. That put 29.5% of the district in urban areas, 3.9 points below the Andhra Pradesh share of 33.4%.
Towns in Chittoor
Chittoor has 22 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tirupati (M Corp.) | 2.87 L | 86.97% | 966 / 1000 |
| Chittoor (M) | 1.54 L | 85.71% | 1007 / 1000 |
| Madanapalle (M) | 1.36 L | 80.50% | 996 / 1000 |
| Srikalahasti (M) | 80,056 | 78.66% | 1053 / 1000 |
| Nagari (M) | 62,253 | 77.85% | 985 / 1000 |
| Punganur (M) | 54,746 | 78.68% | 1010 / 1000 |
| Puttur (M) | 54,092 | 78.37% | 1002 / 1000 |
| Palamaner (M) | 51,163 | 82.01% | 1037 / 1000 |