Ernakulam
Population
- Population
- 32.82 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 68.07%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 95.89%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 97.36%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 94.46%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 2.90 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1027 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 961 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.27%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 8.18%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.50%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.03India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 38.06%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 20.21%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 84.96%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 61.94%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.
Ernakulam in context
With 32,82,388 people at the 2011 Census, Ernakulam was the 104th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Kerala's 14. That is 9.8% of everyone living in Kerala at the time.
Literacy stood at 95.89%, 22.9 points above the national 72.98% — 1.9 points above the Kerala average. That ranked it 7th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 2.9 points, 13.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1027 women per 1,000 men (57 below the Kerala figure of 1084) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 961, 43 above the national 918.
38.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.3 points above the Kerala rate.
Ernakulam contained 57 towns — 10 with a municipal body of some kind, and 47 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest urban settlement was the part of Kochi (M Corp.) falling inside the district, with 3,36,048 people. That put 68.1% of the district in urban areas, 20.4 points above the Kerala share of 47.7%.
Towns in Ernakulam
Ernakulam has 57 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kochi (M Corp.) (Part) | 3.36 L | 97.81% | 1039 / 1000 |
| Kochi (M Corp.) (Part) | 2.66 L | 96.79% | 1013 / 1000 |
| Edathala (CT) | 77,811 | 93.35% | 1023 / 1000 |
| Kalamassery (M) | 71,038 | 95.87% | 1011 / 1000 |
| Thrippunithura (M) | 69,390 | 97.71% | 1046 / 1000 |
| Vazhakkala (CT) | 51,242 | 96.75% | 1047 / 1000 |
| Alangad (CT) | 47,329 | 96.06% | 1040 / 1000 |
| Maradu (CT) | 44,704 | 97.16% | 1016 / 1000 |