Wayanad
Population
- Population
- 8.17 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 3.86%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 89.03%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 92.51%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 85.70%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 6.81 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1035 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 965 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.29%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 3.99%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 18.53%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.28India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 41.60%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 26.80%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 77.47%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 58.40%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.
Wayanad in context
With 8,17,420 people at the 2011 Census, Wayanad was the 481st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 14th most populous of Kerala's 14. That is 2.4% of everyone living in Kerala at the time.
Literacy stood at 89.03%, 16.0 points above the national 72.98% — 5.0 points below the Kerala average. That ranked it 29th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 6.8 points, 9.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1035 women per 1,000 men (49 below the Kerala figure of 1084) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 965, 47 above the national 918.
41.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.8 points above the Kerala rate. Female work participation was 26.8%, 8.6 points above the state figure.
Wayanad contained 1 town. The largest was Kalpetta (M), with 31,580 people. That put 3.9% of the district in urban areas, 43.8 points below the Kerala share of 47.7%.
Towns in Wayanad
Wayanad has one census town.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalpetta (M) | 31,580 | 91.18% | 1051 / 1000 |