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Tamil Nadu districts

Tamil Nadu

Viluppuram

34,58,873
people at the 2011 Census · 17.41 L male, 17.18 L female

Population

Population
34.59 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
15.01%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
71.88%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
80.55%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
63.15%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
17.40 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
987 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
941 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.68%India 13.59%
SC %
29.37%India 16.63%
ST %
2.16%India 8.63%
Household
4.32India 4.85

Work

Workers
49.24%India 39.80%
Female Work
39.92%India 25.52%
Main Workers
74.02%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
50.76%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.

Viluppuram in context

With 34,58,873 people at the 2011 Census, Viluppuram was the 92nd most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Tamil Nadu's 32. That is 4.8% of everyone living in Tamil Nadu at the time.

Literacy stood at 71.88%, 1.1 points below the national 72.98% — 8.2 points below the Tamil Nadu average. That ranked it 329th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 17.4 points, 1.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 987 women per 1,000 men (9 below the Tamil Nadu figure of 996). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 941, 23 above the national 918.

49.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.7 points above the Tamil Nadu rate. Female work participation was 39.9%, 8.1 points above the state figure.

Viluppuram contained 19 towns — 18 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Viluppuram (M), with 96,253 people. That put 15.0% of the district in urban areas, 33.4 points below the Tamil Nadu share of 48.4%.

Towns in Viluppuram

Viluppuram has 19 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Viluppuram by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Viluppuram (M)96,25390.16%1019 / 1000
Tindivanam (M)72,79687.39%1003 / 1000
Kallakkurichi (M)52,50786.17%984 / 1000
Kottakuppam (TP)31,72681.39%1022 / 1000
Tirukkoyilur (TP)30,21286.70%1007 / 1000
Gingee (TP)27,04585.60%975 / 1000
Chinnasalem (TP)25,10681.37%1043 / 1000
Ulundurpettai (TP)23,73482.34%984 / 1000
All 19 towns in Viluppuram