South Andaman
Population
- Population
- 2.38 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 59.10%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 89.13%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 92.19%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 85.57%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 6.62 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 871 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 969 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.36%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.72%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.03India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 40.66%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 17.38%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 88.01%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 59.34%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.
South Andaman in context
With 2,38,142 people at the 2011 Census, South Andaman was the 584th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Andaman and Nicobar Islands's 3. That is 62.6% of everyone living in Andaman and Nicobar Islands at the time.
Literacy stood at 89.13%, 16.1 points above the national 72.98% — 2.5 points above the Andaman and Nicobar Islands average. That ranked it 28th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 6.6 points, 9.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 871 women per 1,000 men (5 below the Andaman and Nicobar Islands figure of 876). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 969, 51 above the national 918.
South Andaman contained 4 towns — 1 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 Port Blair (M Cl), with 1,08,058 people. That put 59.1% of the district in urban areas, 21.4 points above the Andaman and Nicobar Islands share of 37.7%.
Towns in South Andaman
South Andaman has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Blair (M Cl) | 1.08 L | 90.28% | 871 / 1000 |
| Garacharma (CT) | 14,419 | 90.75% | 884 / 1000 |
| Prothrapur (CT) | 10,308 | 90.31% | 817 / 1000 |
| Bambooflat (CT) | 7,962 | 88.84% | 946 / 1000 |