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Puducherry (M) WARD NO.-0040

15,984
people at the 2011 Census · 7,942 male, 8,042 female

Population

Population
15,984India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
90.39%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
95.01%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
85.79%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
9.22 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1013 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1076 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
9.73%India 13.59%
SC %
4.76%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
4.03India 4.85

Work

Workers
36.04%India 39.80%
Female Work
15.53%India 25.52%
Main Workers
92.64%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
63.96%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.

Puducherry (M) WARD NO.-0040 in context

With 15,984 people at the 2011 Census, Puducherry (M) WARD NO.-0040 was the 1st most populous of Puducherry (M)'s 42 wards. That is 6.5% of Puducherry (M)'s population.

Literacy stood at 90.39%, 6.3 points above the urban national average of 84.11% — 1.2 points above Puducherry (M)'s 89.22%. The gap between male and female literacy was 9.2 points, level with the urban national gap of 9.7.

The sex ratio was 1013 women per 1,000 men (33 below Puducherry (M)'s 1046) — one of the minority of wards where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1076, 171 above the urban national 905.