Tiruvannamalai
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.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiruvannamalai (M) | 1.45 L | 87.75% | 1006 / 1000 |
| Arani (M) | 63,671 | 85.41% | 1036 / 1000 |
| Tiruvethipuram (M) | 37,802 | 85.03% | 1014 / 1000 |
| Vandavasi (M) | 31,320 | 86.51% | 1012 / 1000 |
| Polur (TP) | 28,123 | 82.87% | 1029 / 1000 |
| Chengam (TP) | 26,980 | 80.82% | 991 / 1000 |
| Chetpet (TP) | 19,827 | 83.43% | 1029 / 1000 |
| Vengikkal (CT) | 18,244 | 90.15% | 966 / 1000 |