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Town including outgrowths · Census 2011 · code 803256
Kanhangad population. Households, literacy and work.
A detailed town profile in Kerala, using the original Primary Census Abstract. Every figure on this page belongs to the source’s 2011 population and geography.
Historical geographic unit. Census 2011 town boundary and classification. The primary total includes the outgrowths (OG) explicitly included in the source name; it is not a municipal-core-only count. This is not a present-day population or an urban-agglomeration total.
The source records 27,579 households and 125,564 residents. These household and person counts are separate measures.
Children aged 0–6 accounted for 11.54% of residents. This historical age group helps describe the age structure in 2011; it does not measure today’s children.
Male literacy was 96.17% and female literacy was 89.56%, each calculated among the corresponding population aged 7 and above.
Of 42,410 Census workers, 84.61% were main workers. Census work includes more than salaried employment.
What kinds of work were recorded?
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Economic activity
Main workers
Marginal workers
Cultivators
734
159
Agricultural labourers
2,284
942
Household industry workers
1,532
298
Other workers
31,335
5,126
Cultivators, agricultural labourers, household industry workers and other workers are separate Census activity categories. A worker count is not a count of employees on a company payroll.
Using the profile in research
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Definitions, calculation methods and source access
Literacy uses people aged 7 and above; work participation uses all residents. Main workers worked at least six months. Households are the PCA household count, not houses. Rates with zero denominators are unavailable. Names and boundaries belong to Census 2011.
The main profile combines the selected, non-overlapping components. A municipal-core row and its wider row including outgrowths are not added together.
Town proper, excluding outgrowths
The source also supplies a narrower town-proper record. It contains 73,342 people. This component is already inside the wider total and must not be added again.
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Indicator · Census 2011
Total
Males
Females
Populationpeople
73,342
34,518
38,824
Children aged 0–6people aged 0–6
8,595
4,450
4,145
Literate populationliterate people aged 7+
60,314
28,959
31,355
Literacy rate% of the corresponding population aged 7+
93.15%
96.31%
90.41%
Scheduled Castes populationpeople
1,707
816
891
Scheduled Tribes populationpeople
754
374
380
Total workersCensus workers
25,238
17,751
7,487
Work participation rate% of the corresponding total population