Salem villages
Tamil Nadu · Salem · Edappadi
Chittur
14,466
people at the 2011 Census · 7,476 male, 6,990 female
Population
- Population
- 14,466India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 55.13%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 64.13%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 45.59%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 18.54 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 935 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 861 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.53%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 7.98%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.42%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.56India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 64.32%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 62.26%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 97.09%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 35.68%India 60.20%
This village is classified entirely rural at the 2011 Census, so urban population share does not apply. Density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract. See Methodology.
Chittur in context
With 14,466 people at the 2011 Census, Chittur was the 6th most populous of its district's 585 villages, above the district average of 2,920.
Literacy stood at 55.13%, 10.6 points below the district's rural average of 65.74%.
Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 861, 62 below the rural national 923.
64.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.8 points above the district's rural rate.