Ramanathapuram
Population
- Population
- 13.53 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 30.34%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 80.72%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 87.81%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 73.52%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 14.29 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 983 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 961 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.39%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 18.40%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.08%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.18India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 44.55%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 31.34%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 80.62%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 55.45%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.
Ramanathapuram in context
With 13,53,445 people at the 2011 Census, Ramanathapuram was the 359th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 25th most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 1.9% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 80.72%, 7.7 points above the national 72.98% — 0.6 points above the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 146th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.3 points, 2.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 983 women per 1,000 men (13 below the Tamil Nadu figure of 996). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 961, 43 above the national 918.
Ramanathapuram contained 17 towns — 11 with a municipal body of some kind, and 6 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Paramakudi (M), with 95,579 people. That put 30.3% of the district in urban areas, 18.1 points below the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Ramanathapuram
Ramanathapuram has 17 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paramakudi (M) | 95,579 | 90.21% | 966 / 1000 |
| Ramanathapuram (M) | 61,440 | 93.07% | 988 / 1000 |
| Rameswaram (M) | 44,856 | 82.61% | 969 / 1000 |
| Keelakarai (M) | 38,355 | 93.31% | 948 / 1000 |
| Thondi (TP) | 18,465 | 89.61% | 982 / 1000 |
| Mandapam (TP) | 18,427 | 87.08% | 982 / 1000 |
| Pattinamkattan (CT) | 17,601 | 93.41% | 959 / 1000 |
| Sakkarakottai (CT) | 15,355 | 90.88% | 1012 / 1000 |