Puducherry Census 2011

In the past 10 years, the population of the Union Territory has increased by 2.73 lakh, giving it a population growth rate of 28.1% The total population as per the 2011 Census is 12,47,953.

68% (8,52,753) live in urban areas, 32 % of the population (3,95,200) live in rural areas.

The most populous district in the UT is Puducherry, where 76.14 % (9,50,289) of the population lives, followed by Karaikal with 16.04 % (2,00,222)

Of the municipalities, Oulgaret has the highest population of 3,00,104 followed by Puducherry with 2,44,377. Mahe municipality has the least population with 41,816 persons.

The literacy rate of the UT has improved by 4.7 % to 85.9 %.Male literacy  91.3 % and the female literacy  80.7 %

The total population of Scheduled Caste in the UT is 1,96,325 with 95,512 males and 1,00,813 females, which is an increase of 24.4 per cent since the 2001 census .The SC population constitutes 15.7 per cent of the total population. Of this population, 56.3 per cent live in rural areas.