Mahe
Population
- Population
- 41,816India 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 100.00%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 97.87%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 98.63%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 97.25%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 1.38 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1184 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 978 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.89%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.34%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.64India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 28.22%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 11.95%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 88.15%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 71.78%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.
Mahe in context
With 41,816 people at the 2011 Census, Mahe was the 635th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Puducherry's 4. That is 3.4% of everyone living in Puducherry at the time.
Literacy stood at 97.87%, 24.9 points above the national 72.98% — 12.0 points above the Puducherry average. That ranked it 3rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 1.4 points, 14.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1184 women per 1,000 men (147 above the Puducherry figure of 1037) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 978, 60 above the national 918.
28.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.4 points below the Puducherry rate. Female work participation was 11.9%, 5.7 points below the state figure.
Mahe contained 1 town. The largest was Mahe (M), with 41,816 people. That put 100.0% of the district in urban areas, 31.7 points above the Puducherry share of 68.3%.
Towns in Mahe
Mahe has one census town.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mahe (M) | 41,816 | 97.87% | 1184 / 1000 |