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Tirunelveli villages

Tamil Nadu · Tirunelveli · Radhapuram

Palavoor

17,780
people at the 2011 Census · 8,837 male, 8,943 female

Population

Population
17,780India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
89.31%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
92.78%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
85.93%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
6.85 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1012 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
879 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
10.79%India 13.59%
SC %
15.05%India 16.63%
ST %
0.07%India 8.63%
Household
3.86India 4.85

Work

Workers
40.89%India 39.80%
Female Work
27.15%India 25.52%
Main Workers
81.14%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
59.11%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.

Palavoor in context

With 17,780 people at the 2011 Census, Palavoor was the 2nd most populous of its district's 465 villages, above the district average of 3,348.

Literacy stood at 89.31%, 10.1 points above the district's rural average of 79.17%.

The sex ratio was 1012 women per 1,000 men (13 below the district's rural figure of 1025) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 879, 44 below the rural national 923.

40.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 10.0 points below the district's rural rate.