Namakkal
Population
- Population
- 17.27 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 40.32%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 74.63%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 82.64%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 66.57%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.07 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 986 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 914 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 8.73%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 20.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 3.30%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.63India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 52.02%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 42.78%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 93.42%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 47.98%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.
Namakkal in context
With 17,26,601 people at the 2011 Census, Namakkal was the 280th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 21st most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 2.4% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 74.63%, 1.6 points above the national 72.98% — 5.5 points below the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 266th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.1 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 986 women per 1,000 men (10 below the Tamil Nadu figure of 996).
52.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.4 points above the Tamil Nadu rate. Female work participation was 42.8%, 11.0 points above the state figure.
Namakkal contained 34 towns — 24 with a municipal body of some kind, and 10 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Tiruchengode (M), with 95,335 people. That put 40.3% of the district in urban areas, 8.1 points below the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Namakkal
Namakkal has 34 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiruchengode (M) | 95,335 | 83.68% | 994 / 1000 |
| Kumarapalayam (M) | 71,594 | 78.85% | 994 / 1000 |
| Namakkal (M) | 55,145 | 90.76% | 1015 / 1000 |
| Rasipuram (M) | 50,244 | 84.74% | 1077 / 1000 |
| Pallipalayam (M) | 40,140 | 73.23% | 987 / 1000 |
| Velur (TP) | 25,012 | 81.03% | 1014 / 1000 |
| Thathankuttai (CT) | 24,708 | 72.16% | 956 / 1000 |
| Namagiripettai (TP) | 21,250 | 72.51% | 985 / 1000 |