Salem villages
Tamil Nadu · Salem · Mettur
Pottaneri
6,160
people at the 2011 Census · 3,266 male, 2,894 female
Population
- Population
- 6,160India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 74.65%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.92%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 64.09%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 19.83 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 886 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 979 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 9.25%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 5.94%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.70India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 40.70%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 22.63%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 94.42%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 59.30%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.
Pottaneri in context
With 6,160 people at the 2011 Census, Pottaneri was the 81st most populous of its district's 585 villages, above the district average of 2,920.
Literacy stood at 74.65%, 8.9 points above the district's rural average of 65.74%.
Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 979, 56 above the rural national 923.
40.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.9 points below the district's rural rate.