Theni
Population
- Population
- 12.46 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 53.82%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 77.26%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 85.03%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 69.46%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 15.57 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 991 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 934 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.60%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 20.72%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.15%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.68India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 47.49%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 35.91%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 89.68%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 52.51%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.
Theni in context
With 12,45,899 people at the 2011 Census, Theni was the 385th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 28th most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 1.7% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 77.26%, 4.3 points above the national 72.98% — 2.8 points below the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 213th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.6 points, 0.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 991 women per 1,000 men (5 below the Tamil Nadu figure of 996). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 934, 16 above the national 918.
Theni contained 28 towns. The largest was Theni Allinagaram (M), with 94,453 people. That put 53.8% of the district in urban areas, 5.4 points above the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Theni
Theni has 28 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theni Allinagaram (M) | 94,453 | 85.86% | 999 / 1000 |
| Bodinayakanur (M) | 75,675 | 83.39% | 1018 / 1000 |
| Kambam (M) | 68,090 | 84.85% | 1012 / 1000 |
| Periyakulam (M) | 42,976 | 88.25% | 1013 / 1000 |
| Chinnamanur (M) | 42,305 | 83.54% | 1007 / 1000 |
| Gudalur (M) | 41,915 | 72.64% | 1006 / 1000 |
| Uthamapalayam (TP) | 29,050 | 85.56% | 1009 / 1000 |
| Andipatti Jakkampatti (TP) | 27,287 | 85.35% | 1003 / 1000 |