Dharmapuri
Population
- Population
- 15.07 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 17.32%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 68.54%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 76.85%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 59.80%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 17.05 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 946 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 913 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.15%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 16.29%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 4.18%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.01India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 49.85%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 41.65%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 86.93%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 50.15%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.
Dharmapuri in context
With 15,06,843 people at the 2011 Census, Dharmapuri was the 332nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 24th most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 2.1% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 68.54%, 4.4 points below the national 72.98% — 11.5 points below the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 413th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.1 points, 0.8 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 946 women per 1,000 men (50 below the Tamil Nadu figure of 996).
49.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.3 points above the Tamil Nadu rate. Female work participation was 41.6%, 9.8 points above the state figure.
Dharmapuri contained 13 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Dharmapuri (M), with 68,619 people. That put 17.3% of the district in urban areas, 31.1 points below the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Dharmapuri
Dharmapuri has 13 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dharmapuri (M) | 68,619 | 85.50% | 1013 / 1000 |
| Lakkiampatti (CT) | 39,697 | 88.25% | 970 / 1000 |
| Harur (TP) | 25,469 | 82.55% | 1031 / 1000 |
| Palakkodu (TP) | 20,959 | 77.43% | 980 / 1000 |
| Pennagaram (TP) | 17,480 | 73.72% | 947 / 1000 |
| Kariamangalam (TP) | 13,511 | 75.52% | 1000 / 1000 |
| B.Mallapuram (TP) | 12,705 | 77.40% | 987 / 1000 |
| Marandahalli (TP) | 12,451 | 76.01% | 1005 / 1000 |