Cuddalore villages
Tamil Nadu · Cuddalore · Virudhachalam
Melapalaiyur
1,696
people at the 2011 Census · 839 male, 857 female
Population
- Population
- 1,696India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 65.60%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 76.14%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 55.22%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 20.92 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1021 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1075 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.38%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 41.63%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.06%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.70India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 53.18%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 50.53%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 64.52%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 46.82%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.
Melapalaiyur in context
With 1,696 people at the 2011 Census, Melapalaiyur was the 382nd most populous of its district's 828 villages, below the district average of 2,078.
Literacy stood at 65.60%, 8.1 points below the district's rural average of 73.69%.
The sex ratio was 1021 women per 1,000 men (41 above the district's rural figure of 980) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1075, 152 above the rural national 923.