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Mettur (M) wards

Tamil Nadu · Salem · Mettur (M)

Mettur (M) WARD NO.-0022

1,657
people at the 2011 Census · 818 male, 839 female

Population

Population
1,657India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
87.87%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
93.60%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
82.45%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
11.15 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1026 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
691 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
6.94%India 13.59%
SC %
20.88%India 16.63%
ST %
0.12%India 8.63%
Household
3.71India 4.85

Work

Workers
33.68%India 39.80%
Female Work
12.75%India 25.52%
Main Workers
98.57%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
66.32%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.-0022 in context

With 1,657 people at the 2011 Census, Mettur (M) WARD NO.-0022 was the 15th most populous of Mettur (M)'s 30 wards. That is 3.1% of Mettur (M)'s population.

Literacy stood at 87.87%, 3.8 points above the urban national average of 84.11% — 4.3 points above Mettur (M)'s 83.61%. The gap between male and female literacy was 11.2 points, 1.5 points above the urban national gap of 9.7.

The sex ratio was 1026 women per 1,000 men (10 above Mettur (M)'s 1016) — one of the minority of wards where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 691, 214 below the urban national 905.