Malappuram
Population
- Population
- 41.13 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 44.18%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 93.57%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 95.76%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 91.62%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 4.14 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1098 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 965 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 13.96%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.50%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.56%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.18India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 25.83%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 7.63%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 80.20%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 74.17%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.
Malappuram in context
With 41,12,920 people at the 2011 Census, Malappuram was the 50th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Kerala's 14. That is 12.3% of everyone living in Kerala at the time.
Literacy stood at 93.57%, 20.6 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Kerala average. That ranked it 13th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 4.1 points, 12.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1098 women per 1,000 men (14 above the Kerala figure of 1084) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 965, 47 above the national 918.
25.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.0 points below the Kerala rate. Female work participation was 7.6%, 10.6 points below the state figure.
Malappuram contained 44 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 39 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Manjeri (M), with 97,102 people. That put 44.2% of the district in urban areas, 3.5 points below the Kerala share of 47.7%.
Towns in Malappuram
Malappuram has 44 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manjeri (M) | 97,102 | 95.76% | 1059 / 1000 |
| Ponnani (M) | 90,491 | 90.00% | 1123 / 1000 |
| Malappuram (M) | 68,127 | 96.34% | 1066 / 1000 |
| Tirurangadi (CT) | 56,632 | 93.95% | 1099 / 1000 |
| Thennala (CT) | 56,546 | 93.79% | 1117 / 1000 |
| Tirur (M) | 56,058 | 96.13% | 1131 / 1000 |
| Moonniyur (CT) | 55,535 | 93.31% | 1078 / 1000 |
| Perinthalmanna (M) | 49,723 | 95.28% | 1112 / 1000 |