Nagapattinam
Population
- Population
- 16.16 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 22.56%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 83.59%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.79%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 77.58%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.21 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1025 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 959 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.22%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 31.54%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.23%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.91India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 41.57%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 25.76%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 72.37%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 58.43%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.
Nagapattinam in context
With 16,16,450 people at the 2011 Census, Nagapattinam was the 310th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 23rd most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 2.2% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 83.59%, 10.6 points above the national 72.98% — 3.5 points above the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 100th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.2 points, 4.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1025 women per 1,000 men (29 above the Tamil Nadu figure of 996) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 959, 41 above the national 918.
41.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.0 points below the Tamil Nadu rate. Female work participation was 25.8%, 6.0 points below the state figure.
Nagapattinam contained 14 towns — 12 with a municipal body of some kind, and 2 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Nagapattinam (M), with 1,02,905 people. That put 22.6% of the district in urban areas, 25.8 points below the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Nagapattinam
Nagapattinam has 14 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nagapattinam (M) | 1.03 L | 89.02% | 1026 / 1000 |
| Mayiladuthurai (M) | 85,632 | 91.83% | 1045 / 1000 |
| Sirkali (M) | 34,927 | 90.19% | 1028 / 1000 |
| Vedaranyam (M) | 34,266 | 86.05% | 1068 / 1000 |
| Tharangambadi (TP) | 23,191 | 87.87% | 1097 / 1000 |
| Kuthalam (TP) | 16,125 | 90.79% | 1012 / 1000 |
| Thalainayar (TP) | 12,798 | 84.15% | 1041 / 1000 |
| Velankanni (TP) | 11,108 | 84.99% | 1085 / 1000 |