CHENNAI: The provisional population totals released by the Directorate of Census Operations-Tamil Nadu on Tuesday revealed that the Chennai (district) has now become the second district in the country in terms of population density.The North East district in the National Capital Territory of Delhi is the most densely populated district in the country, with a whopping 37,346 people per sq km in 2011, compared to 29,468 people per sq km in 2001.According to the official statistics released by S Gopalakrishnan, Director of Census Operations in the State, the population density in Chennai has increased from 24,963 per sq km in 2001 to 26,903 people 2011. In other words, about 1,940 people have been added to the city’s per sq km area in the past 10 years.This growth in density puts to rest the popular notion among Chennaiites and policy makers that many people, due to increasing cost of living and congestion in the city, have moved to the suburbs and settled there in the past 10-15 years.While Chennai district recorded a phenomenal growth in density, Thiruvallur, Kanchipuram, Coimbatore, Tirupur, Madurai and Kanyakumari have registered a nominal three-digit growth.Thiruvallur district has a density of 1,049 people per sq km, while in Kanchee-puram it is 927.
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