Karur
Population
- Population
- 10.64 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 40.82%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 75.60%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 84.54%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 66.86%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 17.68 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1015 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 939 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.65%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 20.80%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.05%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.71India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 51.04%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 39.95%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 93.60%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 48.96%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.
Karur in context
With 10,64,493 people at the 2011 Census, Karur was the 429th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 29th most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 1.5% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 75.60%, 2.6 points above the national 72.98% — 4.5 points below the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 247th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.7 points, 1.4 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1015 women per 1,000 men (19 above the Tamil Nadu figure of 996) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 939, 21 above the national 918.
51.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.5 points above the Tamil Nadu rate. Female work participation was 40.0%, 8.2 points above the state figure.
Karur contained 19 towns — 15 with a municipal body of some kind, and 4 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Karur (M), with 70,980 people. That put 40.8% of the district in urban areas, 7.6 points below the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Karur
Karur has 19 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karur (M) | 70,980 | 89.46% | 1032 / 1000 |
| Inam Karur (M) | 67,131 | 87.11% | 1000 / 1000 |
| Thanthoni (M) | 53,854 | 86.25% | 986 / 1000 |
| Pallapatti (TP) | 30,624 | 92.53% | 1032 / 1000 |
| Kulithalai (M) | 27,910 | 89.29% | 1016 / 1000 |
| Punjaipugalur (TP) | 23,408 | 83.29% | 1028 / 1000 |
| Senapiratti (CT) | 22,447 | 88.88% | 1000 / 1000 |
| Andankoil East (CT) | 19,779 | 85.91% | 999 / 1000 |