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Kollam Analytics

languages
City (district capitals)/DHQ

1. Malayalam : 360,562
2. English Multilingual Population : 110,872
3. Tamil : 3,831

Number Of Languages spoken by more then 30K Population : 1

Basic Details

City (District Capitals)/DHQ Population :	:	367,107
City(District Capitals)/DHQ Population (Rank)	:	132^nd
District Area (km²)	:	2,483
District Area (Rank)	:	509^th
No.of Towns in District	:	50
No. of Villages in District	:	636

What is A.I.? FAQ

Kollam Highlights: India City/Districts Comparison

Kollam is the 132^nd ranked city in population, out of 768 District Capitals (DHQs) of India. It is the capital of Kollam District in Kerala State. Kollam District is 142^nd highest ranked in population & 509^th ranked in area, in India. Please keep the DHQ rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

Better than India Average-

1.
Kollam is the 5^th highest ranked in Malayalam Script out of 768 city/districts of India. This indicates a high pool of literate malyalam population compared to other cities.

2.
The average Sex-Ratio (1000) (%, Census 2011) of Indian city (district capitals)/districts is 949. Kollam is the 7^th highest ranked city out of 768 city/districts. This indicates a healthy ratio between men and women.

3.
Out of 768 District Capitals/Districts of India, Kollam is the 8^th highest ranked in # of UG Enrolments - Science(No,AISHE 2020) . This indicates that this district is more urbanized and/or has a better-developed educational infrastructure compared to other districts.

Worse than India Average-

1.
Kollam is the 465^th worst ranked in Decadal Growth Rate (2011) (%, Census 2011) out of 768 city/districts of India. This implies that this district has a higher birth rate and/or higher attractiveness for migrants.

2.
The Average Number of Panchayats(Number , Census 2011) of Indian City (District Capitals)/Districts is Kollam is the 316^th worst ranked City out of 768 City/Districts.This indicates that this district has more decentralized governance as compare to other districts.

3.
Out of 768 District Capitals/Districts of India, Kollam is the 290^th worst ranked in Number of Private Jobs( Number, Labour Ministry Quarterly employment Survey 2022) .This indicates that this is a highly urbanised district / high GDP metropolis

Kollam City/District Metrics

Culture

Nature

Internet

Kollam Nature Highlights

	Nature Metrics	% of India	Rank Out of 768	City / Districts Data

Kollam Culture Highlights

Sr.No	Culture Metrics	Counts	Name
Famous Forts	Famous Forts	1	Fort Thomas
Famous Museum Name	Famous Museum Name	1	8 Point Art Cafe
Cantt	Cantt	1	Kollam

Airports

	Name	City	IATA Code	Distance
Airport Name	Trivandrum International Airport	Trivandrum	TRV	36 Km

Population: 367,107 | Population Rank: 132^nd

Area (KM²): 2,483 | Area Rank: 509^th

Positive Metrics:

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Better than India Average-
1	No of Nurses	3328	9^th	3564
2	No of Hospital Beds	1381	12^th	8199
3	No of District Hospital	1	22^nd	1474
4	No of Doctors	1634	33^rd	8624
5	No of Sub Divisional Hospital	1	33^rd	6176
6	No of Community Health Centers	9	54^th	2093
7	No of Total Hospitals	59	70^th	8086
8	No of Primary Health Centers	47	103^rd	2656

Negative Metrics:

Population: 367,107 | Population Rank: 132^nd

Area (KM²): 2,483 | Area Rank: 509^th

Positive Metrics:

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Better than India Average-
1	Number of Households with means of Transport as Car/ Jeep/Van(No, Census 2011)	15187	39^th	2565
2	Number of Households with Television(No, Census 2011)	153607	49^th	6882
3	Number of Households with Internet(No, Census 2011)	10371	50^th	4651
4	Number of Households without Internet(No, Census 2011)	20464	61^st	9663
5	Number of Households with TV, Computer/Laptop, Telephone/mobile phone and Scooter/ Car(No, Census 2011)	15292	61^st	6048
6	GDP (Crores. RBI SCB 2023)	38608	81^st	8656
7	Bank Deposit-Bank Loans (Crores, RBI SCB 2023)	8029	81^st	1822
8	Number of Banks(No, RBI SCB Q4 2022)	221	87^th	10724
9	Number of Households with Owned houses(No, Census 2011)	273858	88^th	8036
10	% of Households with Cars(%, Census 2011)	4	98^th	6863
11	Number of Households with means of Transport as Scooter/ Motorcycle/Moped(No, Census 2011)	67856	100^th	9822
12	GDP per Capita ('000', RBI SCB 2023)	153	108^th	6499
13	Number of Households with rented houses(No, Census 2011)	36696	127^th	7127
14	Bank Credit - Bank Debit/No. of banks (Crore, RBI SCB 2023)	21	145^th	6473
15	Number of Households with Mobile only(No, Census 2011)	169864	153^rd	9202
16	House Ownership % of Households(%, Census 2011)	84	396^th	10062

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Worse than India Average-
1	Bank Deposits(Crore, RBI SCB Q4 2022)	45441	3^rd	11192
2	Bank Credit(Crore, RBI SCB Q4 2022)	37411	17^th	1183
3	Number of Households without TV, Internet, Radio, Computer, Mobile, Landline(No, Census 2011)	55686	71^st	3294
4	% of Household with Mobiles(%, Census 2011)	49	111^th	2007
5	No. of Banks/1000 Household(in "1000", SCB 2023)	1	148^th	5237
6	Bank Loans/Household (Lakhs,RBI SCB 2023)	43	190^th	5202
7	Bank Deposit/Household (Lakhs, RBI SCB 2023)	51	197^th	10289

Negative Metrics:

Population: 367,107 | Population Rank: 132^nd

Area (KM²): 2,483 | Area Rank: 509^th

Positive Metrics:

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Better than India Average-
1	Sex-Ratio (1000) (%, Census 2011)	949	7^th	6451
2	Population per sq. km. (Km, Census 2011)	1017	107^th	5615

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Worse than India Average-
1	Decadal Growth Rate (2011) (%, Census 2011)	19	465^th	9814

Negative Metrics:

Population: 367,107 | Population Rank: 132^nd

Area (KM²): 2,483 | Area Rank: 509^th

Positive Metrics:

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Better than India Average-
1	# of UG Enrolments - Science(No,AISHE 2020)	6311	8^th	3046
2	# of PG Enrolments - Science(No,AISHE 2020)	1015	8^th	9083
3	# of UG Enrolments - Teaching(No,AISHE 2020)	2447	27^th	8211
4	# of UG Enrolments - Medical(No,AISHE 2020)	358	28^th	8239
5	# of PG Enrolments - Management(No,AISHE 2020)	591	33^rd	6272
6	# of UG Enrolments - Management(No,AISHE 2020)	719	34^th	2611
7	# of Ph.D Enrolments(No,AISHE 2020)	275	41^st	6731
8	# of UG Enrolments - Engg(No,AISHE 2020)	5379	49^th	9978
9	# of PG Enrolments - Engg(No,AISHE 2020)	250	49^th	6179
10	# of Master's Enrolment(No,AISHE 2020)	6137	51^st	2041
11	# of Bachelor's Enrolment(No,AISHE 2020)	42477	53^rd	4558
12	# of Colleges(No,AISHE 2020)	56	54^th	1454
13	# of Total Enrolments(No,AISHE 2020)	49523	59^th	7103
14	# of Diploma(No,AISHE 2020)	3877	61^st	10354
15	# of Enrolment in Private and Government Colleges(No,AISHE 2020)	36821	63^rd	5822
16	# of ITIS seats(No,AISHE 2020)	4706	63^rd	9894
17	# of UG Enrolments - Arts (No,AISHE 2020)	9152	74^th	3875
18	# of PG Enrolments - Arts(No,AISHE 2020)	1087	74^th	10591
19	Population (18-24) (Number, 2023)	208496	75^th	3192
20	Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher Education (18-23 Years)(No,AISHE 2020)	28	75^th	6680
21	# of Higher Education Enrolments % of Pop(No, UDISE 2021)?	2	78^th	2445
22	# of UG Enrolments - Law(No,AISHE 2020)	654	81^st	2374
23	# of Universities(No,AISHE 2020)	1	86^th	5802
24	# of UG Diploma Enrolments(No,AISHE 2020)	334	124^th	4021

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Worse than India Average-
1	# of UG Enrolments - Commerce(No,AISHE 2020)	4172	19^th	5180
2	# of PG Enrolments - Commerce(No,AISHE 2020)	344	19^th	7163
3	# of Population (0-18)(No,Census 2011)	136937	30^th	10345
4	# of No. of Schools(No, UDISE 2021)?	1937	156^th	2555

Negative Metrics:

Population: 367,107 | Population Rank: 132^nd

Area (KM²): 2,483 | Area Rank: 509^th

Positive Metrics:

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Better than India Average-
1	Sanctioned Police Force Number(NO, IPC 2020)	1416	43^rd	11092
2	Number of Police Stations(NO, IPC 2020)	22	70^th	9204

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Worse than India Average-
1	Number of Panchayats(Number , Census 2011)	745	316^th	3049

Negative Metrics:

Population: 367,107 | Population Rank: 132^nd

Area (KM²): 2,483 | Area Rank: 509^th

Positive Metrics:

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Better than India Average-
1	English Speakers (Second Language + Third Language(No, Census 2011)	187044	38^th	2283
2	Linkedin Audience Size(No, Linked in 2023)	114666	83^rd	3000
3	Number of Facebook Users. (Estimated Maximum)(No, FB 2022)	395157	111^th	9599

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Worse than India Average-
1	Number of Internet Connections(No, TRAI 2023)	593683	3^rd	5300
2	City FB Users % of City Literate Population(%, FB 2022)	134	37^th	6641
3	Urban Internet Pop/City Pop(%, TRAI June 2023)	165	127^th	9131

Negative Metrics:

Population: 367,107 | Population Rank: 132^nd

Area (KM²): 2,483 | Area Rank: 509^th

Positive Metrics:

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Better than India Average-
1	Malayalam Script	6112	5^th	5542
2	Literacy (%, Census 2023)Estd	78	10^th	4241
3	English Multilingual Population	50193	65^th	4301
4	DHQ Mother Tongue Population (No, Census 2011)	254303	103^rd	10610
5	Script Pools # < 30,000	1	197^th	2449

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Worse than India Average-
1	Tamil Script	23886	35^th	2510
2	Latin Script (English)	2647	67^th	4691
3	Telugu Script	39429	153^rd	8177
4	Kannada Script	23603	161^st	7435
5	Gujarati Script	25953	268^th	1476
6	Assamese Script	3229	276^th	2584
7	Marathi Script	27903	319^th	8351
8	Odia Script	5442	361^st	1314
9	Bengali Script	13153	384^th	9066
10	Perso-Arabic Script (Urdu)	33190	503^rd	5853
11	Devnagri Script (Hindi)	137058	534^th	1925

Negative Metrics:

Population: 367,107 | Population Rank: 132^nd

Area (KM²): 2,483 | Area Rank: 509^th

Positive Metrics:

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Better than India Average-
1	Number of Theatres(No, BOC 2020)	22	49^th	8051
2	Number of Dailies or Magazines(No, RNI 2020)	222	126^th	4131
3	Total Annual Newspaper Circulation(No, RNI 2020)	597414	153^rd	3538

Negative Metrics:

Population: 367,107 | Population Rank: 132^nd

Area (KM²): 2,483 | Area Rank: 509^th

Positive Metrics:

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Better than India Average-
1	# of Households with Location of drinking water source within premises	150461	34^th	10966
2	Number of households having latrine facility within the premises	153026	35^th	5877
3	Number of towns(Number , Census 2011)	10	54^th	7608
4	# of Households with Main source of Lighting as Electricity	217194	63^rd	5898
5	# of Households that use LPG/PNG as fuel for Cooking	93956	64^th	4480
6	Urban Population(Number , Census 2011)	495956	82^nd	8747
7	Number of households(Number , Census 2011)	318214	92^nd	2483
8	# of Households with 1 married couple	223006	101^st	5415
9	Urbanization(% , Census 2011)	24	123^rd	9181

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Worse than India Average-
1	# of Households with Main source of Lighting as Solar Energy	1378	141^st	9570
2	# of Inhabited Villages	747	315^th	9277

Negative Metrics:

Population: 367,107 | Population Rank: 132^nd

Area (KM²): 2,483 | Area Rank: 509^th

Positive Metrics:

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Better than India Average-
1	Number of Companies	1876	39^th	8651
2	Number of Informal Jobs (Including all Unemployed) (Number, Labour Ministry Quarterly employment Survey 2022 and Sengupta committee)	760882	54^th	5633
3	Number of State Government Jobs	25127	56^th	7845
4	Number of Formal Jobs(Sum,DPE 2022)	62963	87^th	2446
5	Govt Jobs as a % of Working Population(%,DPE 2022)	2	90^th	3150
6	Formal Jobs as a % of working Pop(%,DPE 2022)	2	104^th	6078
7	Working Population 2023(Number,Census 2011)	1121530	142^nd	8197

Sr.	Fields	India Average	Rank out of 768	City / District Data
Worse than India Average-
1	Number of Central Government Jobs (Number,DOE Annual Report 2018)	2531	6^th	7502
2	Number of PSU Jobs(Number,DPE 2022, )	816	6^th	10221
3	Number of Private Jobs( Number, Labour Ministry Quarterly employment Survey 2022)	16177	290^th	10830

Negative Metrics:

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