Perambalur
Population
- Population
- 5.65 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 17.19%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 74.32%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 82.87%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 65.90%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.97 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1003 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 913 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.54%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 31.01%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.46%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.79India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 53.03%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 48.43%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 85.11%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 46.97%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.
Perambalur in context
With 5,65,223 people at the 2011 Census, Perambalur was the 535th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 32nd most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 0.8% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 74.32%, 1.3 points above the national 72.98% — 5.8 points below the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 276th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.0 points, 0.7 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1003 women per 1,000 men (7 above the Tamil Nadu figure of 996) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men.
53.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.5 points above the Tamil Nadu rate. Female work participation was 48.4%, 16.6 points above the state figure.
Perambalur contained 5 towns. The largest was Perambalur (M), with 49,648 people. That put 17.2% of the district in urban areas, 31.2 points below the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Perambalur
Perambalur has 5 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perambalur (M) | 49,648 | 90.20% | 1013 / 1000 |
| Arumbavur (TP) | 12,467 | 75.92% | 1014 / 1000 |
| Kurumbalur (TP) | 12,420 | 78.63% | 1021 / 1000 |
| Labbaikudikadu (TP) | 11,891 | 93.28% | 992 / 1000 |
| Poolambadi (TP) | 10,737 | 72.07% | 1038 / 1000 |