Proddatur - Demographics

Demographics

According to provisional reports of 2011 census, Proddatur town has a population of 162,816 of which 115,011 are literates and the metropolitan area has a population of 217,895 of which 147,156 are literates.

According to the official census ten years back (2001), the metropolitan area had a population of 164,932 with 12% of population under 6 years of age. According to this census, males constituted 50.2% of the population and females constituted 49.8% and proddatur had a literacy rate of 63.8%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy was 73.2% and female literacy was 54.3%.