Kollam
Population
- Population
- 26.35 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 45.05%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 94.09%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 96.09%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 92.31%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 3.78 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1113 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 973 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.65%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 12.46%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.41%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.94India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.61%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 19.28%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 76.24%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.39%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.
Kollam in context
With 26,35,375 people at the 2011 Census, Kollam was the 153rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 7th most populous of Kerala's 14. That is 7.9% of everyone living in Kerala at the time.
Literacy stood at 94.09%, 21.1 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Kerala average. That ranked it 12th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 3.8 points, 12.5 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1113 women per 1,000 men (29 above the Kerala figure of 1084) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 973, 55 above the national 918.
Kollam contained 27 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 24 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Kollam (M Corp.), with 3,48,657 people. That put 45.0% of the district in urban areas, 2.7 points below the Kerala share of 47.7%.
Towns in Kollam
Kollam has 27 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kollam (M Corp.) | 3.49 L | 94.12% | 1075 / 1000 |
| Punalur (M) | 46,702 | 94.31% | 1119 / 1000 |
| Kottamkara (CT) | 44,402 | 94.27% | 1069 / 1000 |
| Chavara (CT) | 42,655 | 95.17% | 1091 / 1000 |
| Thrikkovilvattom (CT) | 41,609 | 92.96% | 1079 / 1000 |
| Mayyanad (CT) | 40,039 | 95.15% | 1118 / 1000 |
| Thrikkadavoor (CT) | 39,285 | 94.58% | 1067 / 1000 |
| Thazhuthala (CT) | 37,517 | 93.58% | 1089 / 1000 |