Sivaganga
Population
- Population
- 13.39 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 30.83%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 79.85%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 87.92%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 71.85%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 16.07 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1003 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 960 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.25%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 17.01%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.06%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.95India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 46.31%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 34.14%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 74.35%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 53.69%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.
Sivaganga in context
With 13,39,101 people at the 2011 Census, Sivaganga was the 362nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 26th most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 1.9% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 79.85%, 6.9 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 163rd 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 1003 women per 1,000 men (7 above the Tamil Nadu figure of 996) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 960, 42 above the national 918.
Sivaganga contained 16 towns — 15 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Karaikkudi (M), with 1,06,714 people. That put 30.8% of the district in urban areas, 17.6 points below the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Sivaganga
Sivaganga has 16 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karaikkudi (M) | 1.07 L | 90.49% | 1000 / 1000 |
| Devakottai (M) | 51,865 | 89.99% | 982 / 1000 |
| Sivaganga (M) | 40,403 | 92.77% | 990 / 1000 |
| Manamadurai (TP) | 32,257 | 86.82% | 999 / 1000 |
| Sankarapuram (CT) | 26,536 | 91.65% | 998 / 1000 |
| Tirupathur (TP) | 25,980 | 90.07% | 1033 / 1000 |
| Ilayangudi (TP) | 24,767 | 88.94% | 990 / 1000 |
| Thirupuvanam (TP) | 24,554 | 89.80% | 991 / 1000 |