Puducherry
Population
- Population
- 9.50 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 69.16%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 85.44%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.23%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 79.86%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.37 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1029 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 970 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.51%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 16.04%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.10India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 36.63%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 18.97%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 90.65%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 63.37%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.
Puducherry in context
With 9,50,289 people at the 2011 Census, Puducherry was the 458th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Puducherry's 4. That is 76.1% of everyone living in Puducherry at the time.
Literacy stood at 85.44%, 12.5 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Puducherry average. That ranked it 65th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.4 points, 4.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1029 women per 1,000 men (8 below the Puducherry figure of 1037) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 970, 52 above the national 918.
Puducherry contained 6 towns — 3 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ozhukarai (M), with 3,00,104 people. That put 69.2% of the district in urban areas, 0.8 points above the Puducherry share of 68.3%.
Towns in Puducherry
Puducherry has 6 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ozhukarai (M) | 3.00 L | 89.35% | 1021 / 1000 |
| Puducherry (M) | 2.44 L | 89.22% | 1046 / 1000 |
| Villianur (CT) | 34,383 | 86.32% | 1020 / 1000 |
| Ariankuppam (CT) | 29,808 | 84.41% | 1047 / 1000 |
| Kurumbapet (GP) | 19,506 | 86.69% | 1009 / 1000 |
| Manavely (CT) | 15,666 | 83.41% | 1014 / 1000 |