About Periyakurichi Village

Periyakurichi is a large village in Sendurai tehsil, in the district of Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 3,533, made up of 1,749 males and 1,784 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,020 females per 1000 males. The village covers 1052.37 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 621719, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Periyakurichi compares

By the 2011 count Periyakurichi is the 18th largest of the 27 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 3,978 residents. Its 1052.37 hectares work out to about 3.4 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, much in line with the tehsil average of 1025.

Getting to Periyakurichi

Periyakurichi is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Periyakurichi as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Periyakurichi from other places

Periyakurichi lies about 22 km from Ariyalur, and the nearest railway station is Mathur, about 2.9 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Villages closest to Periyakurichi

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Sendurai tehsil.

• Manapathur 3.0 km
• Asaveerankudikkadu 3.4 km
• Sirkalathur 3.7 km
• Tular 3.7 km
• Maruvathur 3.8 km
• Ponparappi 4.2 km

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.