By population, Mala ranks #6 of 37 villages in Karkal mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mala is a village of 5,998 people in 1,338 households (Census 2011) in Karkal taluk, Udupi district, Karnataka, the 6th-largest of 37 villages in Karkal taluk. Literacy is 74%, 5 points below the taluk average, and the sex ratio is 1,054 women per 1,000 men. It lies 41 km from the Udupi district centre, 20 km from Nitte, the nearest town, 35 km from Nandikoor railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 574122, served by Bajegoli post office; the LGD village code is 608887. The nearest hospital or health centre is Medical Store, 6 km away. The village votes in Kapu assembly constituency, represented by MLA Gurme Suresh Shetty. The population is estimated at 7,072 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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