South Goa
Population
- Population
- 6.41 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 64.59%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 87.59%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.67%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 83.47%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 8.20 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 986 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 946 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.45%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 1.22%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 14.47%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.22India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 38.97%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 21.75%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 82.78%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 61.03%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 Goa in context
With 6,40,537 people at the 2011 Census, South Goa was the 515th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Goa's 2. That is 43.9% of everyone living in Goa at the time.
Literacy stood at 87.59%, 14.6 points above the national 72.98% — 1.1 points below the Goa average. That ranked it 42nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 8.2 points, 8.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 986 women per 1,000 men (13 above the Goa figure of 973). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 946, 28 above the national 918.
South Goa contained 23 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 16 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Mormugao (M Cl), with 94,393 people. That put 64.6% of the district in urban areas, 2.4 points above the Goa share of 62.2%.
Towns in South Goa
South Goa has 23 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mormugao (M Cl) | 94,393 | 90.16% | 902 / 1000 |
| Margao (M Cl) | 87,650 | 91.09% | 976 / 1000 |
| Curchorem-Cacora (M Cl) | 22,730 | 88.85% | 959 / 1000 |
| Sancoale (CT) | 21,923 | 86.61% | 881 / 1000 |
| Cuncolim (M Cl) | 16,623 | 90.77% | 1098 / 1000 |
| Davorlim (CT) | 15,350 | 88.53% | 957 / 1000 |
| Quepem (M Cl) | 14,795 | 83.56% | 1033 / 1000 |
| Curtorim (CT) | 12,886 | 86.82% | 1073 / 1000 |