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Kerala districts

Kerala

Idukki

11,08,974
people at the 2011 Census · 5.53 L male, 5.56 L female

Population

Population
11.09 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
4.69%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
91.99%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
94.56%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
89.45%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
5.11 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1006 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
964 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
9.53%India 13.59%
SC %
13.12%India 16.63%
ST %
5.03%India 8.63%
Household
3.96India 4.85

Work

Workers
46.56%India 39.80%
Female Work
33.20%India 25.52%
Main Workers
80.55%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
53.44%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.

Idukki in context

With 11,08,974 people at the 2011 Census, Idukki was the 416th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 13th most populous of Kerala's 14. That is 3.3% of everyone living in Kerala at the time.

Literacy stood at 91.99%, 19.0 points above the national 72.98% — 2.0 points below the Kerala average. That ranked it 16th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 5.1 points, 11.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1006 women per 1,000 men (78 below the Kerala figure of 1084) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 964, 46 above the national 918.

46.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 11.8 points above the Kerala rate. Female work participation was 33.2%, 15.0 points above the state figure.

Idukki contained 1 town. The largest was Thodupuzha (M), with 52,045 people. That put 4.7% of the district in urban areas, 43.0 points below the Kerala share of 47.7%.

Towns in Idukki

Idukki has one census town.

Largest towns in Idukki by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Thodupuzha (M)52,04595.60%1036 / 1000