Kottayam
Population
- Population
- 19.75 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 28.63%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 97.21%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 97.97%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 96.48%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 1.49 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1039 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 964 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 8.84%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.79%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.11%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.05India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 37.26%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 20.41%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 82.17%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 62.74%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.
Kottayam in context
With 19,74,551 people at the 2011 Census, Kottayam was the 234th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 10th most populous of Kerala's 14. That is 5.9% of everyone living in Kerala at the time.
Literacy stood at 97.21%, 24.2 points above the national 72.98% — 3.2 points above the Kerala average. That ranked it 4th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 1.5 points, 14.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1039 women per 1,000 men (45 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.
Kottayam contained 17 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 13 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Kottayam (M), with 55,374 people. That put 28.6% of the district in urban areas, 19.1 points below the Kerala share of 47.7%.
Towns in Kottayam
Kottayam has 17 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kottayam (M) | 55,374 | 97.62% | 1075 / 1000 |
| Changanassery (M) | 47,685 | 97.19% | 1087 / 1000 |
| Panachikkad (CT) | 43,595 | 97.79% | 1040 / 1000 |
| Perumbaikad (CT) | 42,839 | 97.54% | 1059 / 1000 |
| Athirampuzha (CT) | 40,438 | 97.53% | 1010 / 1000 |
| Nattakam (CT) | 38,599 | 97.97% | 1053 / 1000 |
| Erattupetta (CT) | 34,814 | 95.46% | 983 / 1000 |
| Aimanam (CT) | 34,470 | 97.01% | 1057 / 1000 |