Karaikal
Population
- Population
- 2.00 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 49.00%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 87.05%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 92.37%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 82.02%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.35 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1047 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 969 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.12%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 17.65%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.03India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.11%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 14.80%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 85.42%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.89%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.
Karaikal in context
With 2,00,222 people at the 2011 Census, Karaikal was the 589th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Puducherry's 4. That is 16.0% of everyone living in Puducherry at the time.
Literacy stood at 87.05%, 14.1 points above the national 72.98% — 1.2 points above the Puducherry average. That ranked it 45th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 10.3 points, 5.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1047 women per 1,000 men (10 above the Puducherry figure of 1037) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 969, 51 above the national 918.
Karaikal contained 2 towns — 1 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Karaikal (M), with 86,838 people. That put 49.0% of the district in urban areas, 19.3 points below the Puducherry share of 68.3%.
Towns in Karaikal
Karaikal has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karaikal (M) | 86,838 | 88.86% | 1055 / 1000 |
| Thirumalairayanpattinam (CT) | 11,264 | 90.84% | 1082 / 1000 |