Palakkad
Population
- Population
- 28.10 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 24.09%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 89.31%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 93.10%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 85.79%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.31 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1067 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 967 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.76%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 14.37%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.74%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.41India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 37.09%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 20.42%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 84.00%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 62.91%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.
Palakkad in context
With 28,09,934 people at the 2011 Census, Palakkad was the 139th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Kerala's 14. That is 8.4% of everyone living in Kerala at the time.
Literacy stood at 89.31%, 16.3 points above the national 72.98% — 4.7 points below the Kerala average. That ranked it 26th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.3 points, 8.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1067 women per 1,000 men (17 below the Kerala figure of 1084) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 967, 49 above the national 918.
Palakkad contained 21 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 17 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Palakkad (M), with 1,30,955 people. That put 24.1% of the district in urban areas, 23.6 points below the Kerala share of 47.7%.
Towns in Palakkad
Palakkad has 21 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palakkad (M) | 1.31 L | 93.90% | 1052 / 1000 |
| Ottappalam (M) | 53,792 | 94.62% | 1121 / 1000 |
| Shoranur (M) | 43,533 | 95.19% | 1097 / 1000 |
| Pirayiri (CT) | 41,359 | 91.23% | 1041 / 1000 |
| Mannarkad-I (CT) | 34,839 | 92.58% | 1091 / 1000 |
| Chittur-Thathamangalam (M) | 32,298 | 89.73% | 1062 / 1000 |
| Puthuppariyaram (CT) | 30,895 | 92.19% | 1060 / 1000 |
| Pattambi (CT) | 28,632 | 95.18% | 1038 / 1000 |