Madurai
Population
- Population
- 30.38 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 60.78%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 83.45%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.72%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 77.16%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.56 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 990 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 932 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.33%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 13.46%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.37%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.82India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 44.59%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 29.89%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 86.66%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 55.41%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.
Madurai in context
With 30,38,252 people at the 2011 Census, Madurai was the 119th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 9th most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 4.2% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 83.45%, 10.5 points above the national 72.98% — 3.4 points above the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 103rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.6 points, 3.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 990 women per 1,000 men (6 below the Tamil Nadu figure of 996).
Madurai contained 39 towns — 19 with a municipal body of some kind, and 20 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Madurai (M Corp.), with 10,17,865 people. That put 60.8% of the district in urban areas, 12.4 points above the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Madurai
Madurai has 39 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madurai (M Corp.) | 10.18 L | 90.91% | 999 / 1000 |
| Avaniapuram (M) | 89,635 | 88.16% | 979 / 1000 |
| Anaiyur (M) | 63,917 | 91.67% | 990 / 1000 |
| Thirumangalam (M) | 51,194 | 90.68% | 1013 / 1000 |
| Thiruparankundram (M) | 48,810 | 88.10% | 999 / 1000 |
| Melamadai (CT) | 43,797 | 90.60% | 976 / 1000 |
| Melur (M) | 40,017 | 89.51% | 961 / 1000 |
| Usilampatti (M) | 35,219 | 86.84% | 998 / 1000 |