Krishnagiri
Population
- Population
- 18.80 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 22.79%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 71.46%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 78.72%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 63.91%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 14.81 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 958 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 926 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.56%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 14.22%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.19%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.20India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 46.70%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 34.38%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 84.53%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 53.30%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.
Krishnagiri in context
With 18,79,809 people at the 2011 Census, Krishnagiri was the 251st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 18th most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 2.6% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 71.46%, 1.5 points below the national 72.98% — 8.6 points below the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 341st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.8 points, 1.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 958 women per 1,000 men (38 below the Tamil Nadu figure of 996).
Krishnagiri contained 14 towns — 9 with a municipal body of some kind, and 5 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Hosur (M), with 1,16,821 people. That put 22.8% of the district in urban areas, 25.6 points below the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Krishnagiri
Krishnagiri has 14 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosur (M) | 1.17 L | 87.40% | 968 / 1000 |
| Krishnagiri (M) | 71,323 | 86.14% | 1015 / 1000 |
| Mookondapalli (CT) | 39,245 | 89.19% | 916 / 1000 |
| Zuzuvadi (CT) | 32,474 | 86.96% | 878 / 1000 |
| Denkanikottai (TP) | 24,252 | 76.83% | 968 / 1000 |
| Mathigiri (TP) | 23,129 | 85.80% | 973 / 1000 |
| Kattiganapalli (CT) | 22,714 | 88.87% | 1007 / 1000 |
| Uthangarai (TP) | 18,470 | 85.11% | 961 / 1000 |