Kannur
Population
- Population
- 25.23 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 65.04%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 95.10%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 97.19%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 93.29%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 3.90 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1136 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 971 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.87%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 3.30%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.64%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.55India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 32.66%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 16.01%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 84.24%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 67.34%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.
Kannur in context
With 25,23,003 people at the 2011 Census, Kannur was the 170th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Kerala's 14. That is 7.6% of everyone living in Kerala at the time.
Literacy stood at 95.10%, 22.1 points above the national 72.98% — 1.1 points above the Kerala average. That ranked it 9th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 3.9 points, 12.3 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1136 women per 1,000 men (52 above the Kerala figure of 1084) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 971, 53 above the national 918.
Kannur contained 67 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 60 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Thalassery (M), with 92,558 people. That put 65.0% of the district in urban areas, 17.3 points above the Kerala share of 47.7%.
Towns in Kannur
Kannur has 67 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thalassery (M) | 92,558 | 97.17% | 1180 / 1000 |
| Taliparamba (M) | 72,465 | 95.11% | 1145 / 1000 |
| Payyannur (M) | 72,111 | 94.08% | 1159 / 1000 |
| Kannur (M) | 56,823 | 96.21% | 1161 / 1000 |
| Mattannur (M) | 47,078 | 94.81% | 1078 / 1000 |
| Chirakkal (CT) | 45,601 | 96.05% | 1159 / 1000 |
| Thottada (CT) | 40,818 | 96.59% | 1208 / 1000 |
| Peringathur (CT) | 40,292 | 96.00% | 1181 / 1000 |