Porathissery is a
village
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in
Irinjalakuda
Irinjalakuda is a municipal town in Thrissur district, Kerala, India. It is the headquarters of
Irinjalakuda Revenue Division and Mukundapuram (tehsil), Mukundapuram Taluk. After Thrissur, this town has most number of administrative, law-enfor ...
municipality
Thrissur district in the state of
Kerala
Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...
,
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
.
Demographics
As of the 2011 Indian
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...
, Porathissery had a population of 16,768 with 7,829 males and 8,939 females. There were 1,522 children below the age of 6.
Of the 16,768 people in Porathissery, 72.84% of the population were Hindu, 21.89% were Christian, 5.21% were Muslim, 0.02% stated other, and 0.04% did not provide their religion.
References
Villages in Mukundapuram Taluk
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