About Odanthurai Village

Odanthurai is one of the larger villages in Mettupalayam tehsil, in the district of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 5,399, made up of 2,686 males and 2,713 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,010 females per 1000 males. The village covers 1199.95 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 641301, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Odanthurai compares

By the 2011 count Odanthurai is the 14th largest of the 22 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 6,253 residents. Its 1199.95 hectares work out to about 4.5 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 1006.

Getting to Odanthurai

Odanthurai 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 Odanthurai as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. 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 Odanthurai from other places

Odanthurai lies about 34 km from Coimbatore. 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 Odanthurai

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

• Odanthurai R F under 2 km
• Chickadasampalayam 1.8 km
• Nellithurai 5.7 km
• Nellithurai And Sundapatti R F 5.7 km
• Kallar R F 5.7 km
• Jadayampalayam 5.9 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.