Coimbatore
Population
- Population
- 34.58 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 75.73%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 83.98%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.06%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 78.92%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.14 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1000 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 956 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.23%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 15.50%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.82%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.61India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 45.34%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 28.04%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 92.05%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 54.66%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.
Coimbatore in context
With 34,58,045 people at the 2011 Census, Coimbatore was the 93rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 4.8% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 83.98%, 11.0 points above the national 72.98% — 3.9 points above the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 90th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.1 points, 6.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1000 women per 1,000 men (level with the Tamil Nadu figure of 996). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 956, 38 above the national 918.
Coimbatore contained 69 towns — 51 with a municipal body of some kind, and 18 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Coimbatore (M Corp.), with 10,50,721 people. That put 75.7% of the district in urban areas, 27.3 points above the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Coimbatore
Coimbatore has 69 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coimbatore (M Corp.) | 10.51 L | 91.30% | 997 / 1000 |
| Kurichi (M) | 1.24 L | 89.93% | 1001 / 1000 |
| Kuniyamuthur (M) | 95,924 | 89.37% | 1001 / 1000 |
| Pollachi (M) | 90,180 | 89.85% | 1012 / 1000 |
| Goundampalayam (M) | 83,908 | 89.88% | 981 / 1000 |
| Valparai (M) | 70,859 | 84.43% | 1013 / 1000 |
| Mettupalayam (M) | 69,213 | 85.52% | 1022 / 1000 |
| Vadavalli (TP) | 39,873 | 89.76% | 1000 / 1000 |