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Anantapur population.Households, literacy and work. Primary Census Abstract for this town in Andhra Pradesh, using 2011 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. The town total is our sum of 2 separately published geographic parts, all sharing this Census town code. This is not a present-day population or an urban-agglomeration total.
Population 267,161 people
Households 64,572 PCA households
Literacy rate 81.16% % of people aged 7+
Work participation 35.32% % of all residents
Population, children, literacy and work by sex Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
Indicator · Census 2011 Total Males Females Populationpeople 267,161 133,919 133,242 Children aged 0–6people aged 0–6 25,547 13,446 12,101 Literate populationliterate people aged 7+ 196,098 105,565 90,533 Literacy rate% of the corresponding population aged 7+ 81.16% 87.63% 74.73% Scheduled Castes populationpeople 18,338 9,153 9,185 Scheduled Tribes populationpeople 7,748 4,012 3,736 Total workersCensus workers 94,352 71,967 22,385 Work participation rate% of the corresponding total population 35.32% 53.74% 16.8% Main workersworked at least 6 months 87,447 68,290 19,157 Marginal workersworked less than 6 months 6,905 3,677 3,228 Non-workerspeople 172,809 61,952 110,857
Percentages use the denominator shown in the table.
Census of India · original Primary Census Abstract Source access notes and archived workbooks
What stands out in this profile? Census 2011 recorded 64,572 households and 267,161 residents. Children aged 0–6 made up 9.56% of residents. Among people aged 7 and above, literacy was 87.63% for males and 74.73% for females. Of 94,352 workers, 92.68% were main workers. What kinds of work were recorded? Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
Economic activity Main workers Marginal workers Cultivators 1,237 147 Agricultural labourers 1,517 425 Household industry workers 3,669 644 Other workers 81,024 5,689
The Census counts economic activity, including qualifying unpaid work.
Source components of this town Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
Published component District code Subdistrict code People Anantapur (M Corp. + OG) (Part) 553 05330 261,004 Anantapur (M Corp. + OG) (Part) 553 05331 6,157
The profile combines non-overlapping source components.