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Madurai villages

Tamil Nadu · Madurai · Thirumangalam

Kandai

1,117
people at the 2011 Census · 541 male, 576 female

Population

Population
1,117India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
65.90%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
79.18%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
53.55%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
25.63 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1065 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
982 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
9.94%India 13.59%
SC %
72.52%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
3.93India 4.85

Work

Workers
62.58%India 39.80%
Female Work
59.55%India 25.52%
Main Workers
98.14%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
37.42%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.

Kandai in context

With 1,117 people at the 2011 Census, Kandai was the 338th most populous of its district's 570 villages, below the district average of 2,090.

Literacy stood at 65.90%, 8.2 points below the district's rural average of 74.14%.

The sex ratio was 1065 women per 1,000 men (83 above the district's rural figure of 982) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 982, 59 above the rural national 923.

62.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.9 points above the district's rural rate.