Thiruvallur
Population
- Population
- 37.28 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 65.14%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 84.03%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.69%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 78.32%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 11.37 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 987 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 946 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.88%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 22.04%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.27%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.94India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 41.26%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 23.46%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 81.14%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 58.74%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.
Thiruvallur in context
With 37,28,104 people at the 2011 Census, Thiruvallur was the 70th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 5.2% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 84.03%, 11.0 points above the national 72.98% — 3.9 points above the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 89th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.4 points, 4.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 987 women per 1,000 men (9 below the Tamil Nadu figure of 996). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 946, 28 above the national 918.
41.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.3 points below the Tamil Nadu rate. Female work participation was 23.5%, 8.3 points below the state figure.
Thiruvallur contained 58 towns — 25 with a municipal body of some kind, and 33 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Ambattur (M), with 4,66,205 people. That put 65.1% of the district in urban areas, 16.7 points above the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Thiruvallur
Thiruvallur has 58 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ambattur (M) | 4.66 L | 92.19% | 985 / 1000 |
| Avadi (M) | 3.46 L | 91.28% | 970 / 1000 |
| Tiruvottiyur (M) | 2.49 L | 88.59% | 991 / 1000 |
| Madavaram (M) | 1.19 L | 90.51% | 989 / 1000 |
| Maduravoyal (M) | 86,195 | 87.61% | 993 / 1000 |
| Tiruverkadu (M) | 62,824 | 83.96% | 977 / 1000 |
| Nerkunram (CT) | 59,790 | 87.36% | 957 / 1000 |
| Poonamallee (M) | 57,224 | 88.98% | 999 / 1000 |