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Tirunelveli villages

Tamil Nadu · Tirunelveli · Sankarankoil

Sayamalai

5,504
people at the 2011 Census · 2,706 male, 2,798 female

Population

Population
5,504India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
67.94%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
77.24%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
58.94%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
18.30 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1034 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1040 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
10.23%India 13.59%
SC %
18.68%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
3.77India 4.85

Work

Workers
54.41%India 39.80%
Female Work
48.78%India 25.52%
Main Workers
78.93%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
45.59%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.

Sayamalai in context

With 5,504 people at the 2011 Census, Sayamalai was the 83rd most populous of its district's 465 villages, above the district average of 3,348.

Literacy stood at 67.94%, 11.2 points below the district's rural average of 79.17%.

The sex ratio was 1034 women per 1,000 men (9 above 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 1040, 117 above the rural national 923.