Idukki villages
Periyar
22,978
people at the 2011 Census · 11,397 male, 11,581 female
Population
- Population
- 22,978India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 86.39%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.64%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 81.26%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.38 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1016 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 948 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.38%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 33.20%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 1.62%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.00India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 47.41%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 35.56%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 79.08%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 52.59%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.
Periyar in context
With 22,978 people at the 2011 Census, Periyar was the 15th most populous of its district's 64 villages, above the district average of 16,515.
Literacy stood at 86.39%, 5.4 points below the district's rural average of 91.82%.
The sex ratio was 1016 women per 1,000 men (11 above the district's rural figure of 1005) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 948, 25 above the rural national 923.