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Town including outgrowths · Census 2011 · code 803269
Malappuram 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 19,785 households and 101,386 residents. These household and person counts are separate measures.
Children aged 0–6 accounted for 14.43% of residents. This historical age group helps describe the age structure in 2011; it does not measure today’s children.
Male literacy was 97.52% and female literacy was 95.13%, each calculated among the corresponding population aged 7 and above.
Of 25,479 Census workers, 88.08% 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
703
116
Agricultural labourers
1,783
423
Household industry workers
216
46
Other workers
19,740
2,452
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 68,127 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
68,127
32,974
35,153
Children aged 0–6people aged 0–6
9,643
4,928
4,715
Literate populationliterate people aged 7+
56,346
27,385
28,961
Literacy rate% of the corresponding population aged 7+
96.34%
97.64%
95.15%
Scheduled Castes populationpeople
3,319
1,619
1,700
Scheduled Tribes populationpeople
58
33
25
Total workersCensus workers
17,029
14,490
2,539
Work participation rate% of the corresponding total population