Karaikal villages
Puducherry · Karaikal · Karaikal Taluk
Poovam
1,565
people at the 2011 Census · 765 male, 800 female
Population
- Population
- 1,565India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 87.96%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 91.43%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 84.76%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 6.67 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1046 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 780 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.37%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 23.64%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.03India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 34.12%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 14.12%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 45.88%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 65.88%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.
Poovam in context
With 1,565 people at the 2011 Census, Poovam was the 26th most populous of its district's 28 villages, below the district average of 3,647.
The sex ratio was 1046 women per 1,000 men (9 above the district's rural figure of 1037) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 780, 143 below the rural national 923.