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The Nilgiris villages

Tamil Nadu · The Nilgiris · Panthalur

Nelliyalam

21,836
people at the 2011 Census · 10,564 male, 11,272 female

Population

Population
21,836India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
86.53%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
91.75%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
81.68%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
10.07 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1067 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
992 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
11.51%India 13.59%
SC %
26.66%India 16.63%
ST %
7.74%India 8.63%
Household
4.40India 4.85

Work

Workers
43.79%India 39.80%
Female Work
33.67%India 25.52%
Main Workers
87.38%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
56.21%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.

Nelliyalam in context

With 21,836 people at the 2011 Census, Nelliyalam was the 2nd most populous of its district's 40 villages, above the district average of 7,493.

Literacy stood at 86.53%, 5.4 points above the district's rural average of 81.17%.

The sex ratio was 1067 women per 1,000 men (13 above the district's rural figure of 1054) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 992, 69 above the rural national 923.

43.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 9.6 points below the district's rural rate.