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Kerala districts

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Thiruvananthapuram

33,01,427
people at the 2011 Census · 15.82 L male, 17.20 L female

Population

Population
33.01 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
53.66%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
93.02%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
95.06%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
91.17%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
3.89 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1087 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
964 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
9.30%India 13.59%
SC %
11.30%India 16.63%
ST %
0.81%India 8.63%
Household
3.94India 4.85

Work

Workers
37.31%India 39.80%
Female Work
21.37%India 25.52%
Main Workers
74.80%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
62.69%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.

Thiruvananthapuram in context

With 33,01,427 people at the 2011 Census, Thiruvananthapuram was the 103rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Kerala's 14. That is 9.9% of everyone living in Kerala at the time.

Literacy stood at 93.02%, 20.0 points above the national 72.98% — 1.0 points below the Kerala average. That ranked it 15th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 3.9 points, 12.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1087 women per 1,000 men (level with the Kerala figure of 1084) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 964, 46 above the national 918.

Thiruvananthapuram contained 31 towns — 5 with a municipal body of some kind, and 26 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Thiruvananthapuram (M Corp.), with 7,43,691 people. That put 53.7% of the district in urban areas, 6.0 points above the Kerala share of 47.7%.

Towns in Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram has 31 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Thiruvananthapuram by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Thiruvananthapuram (M Corp.)7.44 L95.10%1054 / 1000
Neyyattinkara (M)70,85093.52%1053 / 1000
Nedumangad (M)60,16193.28%1073 / 1000
Pallichal (CT)53,86193.14%1033 / 1000
Vattiyoorkavu (CT)47,18795.34%1041 / 1000
Kudappanakkunnu (CT)41,58396.96%1073 / 1000
Kalliyoor (CT)40,81693.57%1033 / 1000
Athiyannur (CT)40,71292.77%1065 / 1000
All 31 towns in Thiruvananthapuram