About Valvachagostam Village

Valvachagostam is one of the larger villages in Kalkulam tehsil, in the district of Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 5,579, made up of 2,768 males and 2,811 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,016 females per 1000 males. The village covers 420.06 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 629158, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Valvachagostam compares

By the 2011 count Valvachagostam is the 8th largest of the 17 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 6,667 residents. Its 420.06 hectares work out to about 13 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, a little above the tehsil average of 991.

Getting to Valvachagostam

Valvachagostam 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 Valvachagostam 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 village. The nearest villages by name are Surulacode, Thackalai, Thalakkulam and Thikkanamcode. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

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.