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Mettur (M) wards

Tamil Nadu · Salem · Mettur (M)

Mettur (M) WARD NO.-0008

2,300
people at the 2011 Census · 1,132 male, 1,168 female

Population

Population
2,300India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
85.48%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
92.75%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
78.55%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
14.20 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1032 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
845 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
7.78%India 13.59%
SC %
44.00%India 16.63%
ST %
0.17%India 8.63%
Household
3.63India 4.85

Work

Workers
35.70%India 39.80%
Female Work
16.10%India 25.52%
Main Workers
65.04%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
64.30%India 60.20%

Figures cover this ward as a subdivision of its census town and share the town’s urban classification. Density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract. See Methodology.

Mettur (M) WARD NO.-0008 in context

With 2,300 people at the 2011 Census, Mettur (M) WARD NO.-0008 was the 8th most populous of Mettur (M)'s 30 wards. That is 4.4% of Mettur (M)'s population.

Literacy stood at 85.48%, 1.4 points above the urban national average of 84.11% — 1.9 points above Mettur (M)'s 83.61%. The gap between male and female literacy was 14.2 points, 4.5 points above the urban national gap of 9.7.

The sex ratio was 1032 women per 1,000 men (16 above Mettur (M)'s 1016) — one of the minority of wards where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 845, 60 below the urban national 905.