Tirunelveli villages
Tamil Nadu · Tirunelveli · Nanguneri
Melkarai
1,627
people at the 2011 Census · 822 male, 805 female
Population
- Population
- 1,627India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 85.95%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 89.83%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 82.10%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.73 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 979 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 789 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 12.54%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 8.36%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.26India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 46.40%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 37.52%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 47.28%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 53.60%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.
Melkarai in context
With 1,627 people at the 2011 Census, Melkarai was the 311th most populous of its district's 465 villages, below the district average of 3,348.
Literacy stood at 85.95%, 6.8 points above the district's rural average of 79.17%.
Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 789, 134 below the rural national 923.