Alakode is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in Kannur district

Kannur district

Kannur District is one of the 14 districts in the state of Kerala, India. The town of Kannur is the district headquarters, and gives the district its name. The old name Cannanore is the anglicised form of the Malayalam name Kannur. Kannur District is bounded by Kasaragod District to the north and...

 in the India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n state of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

.. Alakode was one of the major centres of Malabar Migration

Malabar migration

Malabar Migrationhttp://www.kottayamad.org/malabar_migration.htm refers to the large-scale migration from Central-South Kerala to northern regions of Kerala called Malabar in the 20th century...

. People here are almost in equal ratio of Hindu, Muslims and Christians. Most people are engaged in agriculture and business.This area exports hill products viz rubber,dry copra,pepper etc. to Industries located in northern part of India. It is a place where a huge number of Christians migrated during 1940s and '50s from Travancore area and now they play a major role in the economy here. Around 40Kms away from kannur town

Demographics

India census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Alakode had a population of 33605 with 16811 males and 16794 females.