Thiruvananthapuram
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.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thiruvananthapuram (M Corp.) | 7.44 L | 95.10% | 1054 / 1000 |
| Neyyattinkara (M) | 70,850 | 93.52% | 1053 / 1000 |
| Nedumangad (M) | 60,161 | 93.28% | 1073 / 1000 |
| Pallichal (CT) | 53,861 | 93.14% | 1033 / 1000 |
| Vattiyoorkavu (CT) | 47,187 | 95.34% | 1041 / 1000 |
| Kudappanakkunnu (CT) | 41,583 | 96.96% | 1073 / 1000 |
| Kalliyoor (CT) | 40,816 | 93.57% | 1033 / 1000 |
| Athiyannur (CT) | 40,712 | 92.77% | 1065 / 1000 |