Madurai villages
Tamil Nadu · Madurai · Thirumangalam
Melakottai
5,156
people at the 2011 Census · 2,564 male, 2,592 female
Population
- Population
- 5,156India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 82.96%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.81%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 74.19%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 17.62 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1011 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1020 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.99%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 37.68%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.75India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 49.36%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 39.31%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 75.25%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 50.64%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.
Melakottai in context
With 5,156 people at the 2011 Census, Melakottai was the 55th most populous of its district's 570 villages, above the district average of 2,090.
Literacy stood at 82.96%, 8.8 points above the district's rural average of 74.14%.
The sex ratio was 1011 women per 1,000 men (29 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 1020, 97 above the rural national 923.