Tamil Nadu · Salem · Yercaud
Mettur
Population
- Population
- 298India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 38.82%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 51.59%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 26.36%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 25.23 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1069 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1389 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 14.43%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 2.01%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 96.64%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.68India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 41.61%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 27.27%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 100.00%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 58.39%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.
Mettur in context
With 298 people at the 2011 Census, Mettur was the 476th most populous of its district's 585 villages, below the district average of 2,920.
Literacy stood at 38.82%, 26.9 points below the district's rural average of 65.74%.
The sex ratio was 1069 women per 1,000 men (135 above the district's rural figure of 934) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1389, 466 above the rural national 923.
41.6% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.0 points below the district's rural rate.