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Tamil Nadu districts

Tamil Nadu

Tiruvannamalai

24,64,875
people at the 2011 Census · 12.36 L male, 12.29 L female

Population

Population
24.65 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
20.08%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
74.21%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
83.11%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
65.32%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
17.79 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
994 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
930 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.06%India 13.59%
SC %
22.94%India 16.63%
ST %
3.69%India 8.63%
Household
4.19India 4.85

Work

Workers
50.23%India 39.80%
Female Work
40.62%India 25.52%
Main Workers
78.35%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
49.77%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.

Tiruvannamalai in context

With 24,64,875 people at the 2011 Census, Tiruvannamalai was the 177th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 13th most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 3.4% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.

Literacy stood at 74.21%, 1.2 points above the national 72.98% — 5.9 points below the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 278th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.8 points, 1.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 994 women per 1,000 men (level with the Tamil Nadu figure of 996).

50.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.6 points above the Tamil Nadu rate. Female work participation was 40.6%, 8.8 points above the state figure.

Tiruvannamalai contained 22 towns — 14 with a municipal body of some kind, and 8 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Tiruvannamalai (M), with 1,45,278 people. That put 20.1% of the district in urban areas, 28.3 points below the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.

Towns in Tiruvannamalai

Tiruvannamalai has 22 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Tiruvannamalai by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Tiruvannamalai (M)1.45 L87.75%1006 / 1000
Arani (M)63,67185.41%1036 / 1000
Tiruvethipuram (M)37,80285.03%1014 / 1000
Vandavasi (M)31,32086.51%1012 / 1000
Polur (TP)28,12382.87%1029 / 1000
Chengam (TP)26,98080.82%991 / 1000
Chetpet (TP)19,82783.43%1029 / 1000
Vengikkal (CT)18,24490.15%966 / 1000
All 22 towns in Tiruvannamalai