Palakkad villages
Sholayur
7,012
people at the 2011 Census · 3,507 male, 3,505 female
Population
- Population
- 7,012India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 71.43%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 76.75%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 66.08%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 10.67 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 999 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 1040 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 10.30%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 8.47%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 52.17%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.72India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 53.86%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 44.96%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 75.38%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 46.14%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.
Sholayur in context
With 7,012 people at the 2011 Census, Sholayur was the 125th most populous of its district's 131 villages, below the district average of 16,283.
Literacy stood at 71.43%, 16.9 points below the district's rural average of 88.31%.
The sex ratio was 999 women per 1,000 men (69 below the district's rural figure of 1068). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1040, 117 above the rural national 923.
53.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 16.0 points above the district's rural rate.