Vellore
Population
- Population
- 39.36 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 43.24%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 79.17%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 86.50%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 71.95%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 14.55 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1007 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 944 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.99%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 21.85%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.85%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.24India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 42.92%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 28.64%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 80.52%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 57.08%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.
Vellore in context
With 39,36,331 people at the 2011 Census, Vellore was the 63rd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 5.5% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.
Literacy stood at 79.17%, 6.2 points above the national 72.98% — 0.9 points below the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 174th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.6 points, 1.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1007 women per 1,000 men (11 above the Tamil Nadu figure of 996) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 944, 26 above the national 918.
Vellore contained 72 towns — 36 with a municipal body of some kind, and 36 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Vellore (M. Corp), with 1,85,803 people. That put 43.2% of the district in urban areas, 5.2 points below the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.
Towns in Vellore
Vellore has 72 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vellore (M. Corp) | 1.86 L | 86.40% | 1034 / 1000 |
| Ambur (M) | 1.15 L | 86.02% | 1033 / 1000 |
| Vaniyambadi (M) | 95,061 | 85.13% | 1023 / 1000 |
| Gudiyatham (M) | 91,558 | 86.19% | 1029 / 1000 |
| Arakonam (M) | 78,395 | 90.75% | 1020 / 1000 |
| Tirupathur (M) | 64,125 | 85.94% | 1010 / 1000 |
| Sathuvachari (M) | 56,951 | 89.80% | 1019 / 1000 |
| Arcot (M) | 55,955 | 88.46% | 1014 / 1000 |