Karur villages
Tamil Nadu · Karur · Karur
Melapalayam
2,462
people at the 2011 Census · 1,217 male, 1,245 female
Population
- Population
- 2,462India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 72.05%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.48%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 60.93%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 22.55 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1023 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 972 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 8.73%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 44.31%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.31India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 55.81%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 47.71%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 93.16%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 44.19%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.
Melapalayam in context
With 2,462 people at the 2011 Census, Melapalayam was the 112th most populous of its district's 170 villages, below the district average of 3,706.
The sex ratio was 1023 women per 1,000 men (8 above the district's rural figure of 1015) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 972, 49 above the rural national 923.