About Ariyapalayam Village

Ariyapalayam is a large village in Attur tehsil, in the district of Salem, Tamil Nadu. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 2,316, made up of 1,176 males and 1,140 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 969 females per 1000 males. The village covers 409.76 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 636119, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Ariyapalayam compares

By the 2011 count Ariyapalayam is the 54th largest of the 95 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 3,234 residents. Its 409.76 hectares work out to about 5.7 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, though that is a little below the tehsil average of 986.

Getting to Ariyapalayam

Ariyapalayam 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 Ariyapalayam 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 Ariyapalayam from other places

Ariyapalayam lies about 35 km from Salem, and the nearest railway station is Ettapur Road, about 4.0 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 Ariyapalayam

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

• Umayalpuram 1.9 km
• Muthakavandanur 2.1 km
• Thennampillaiyur 2.2 km
• Kalarampatty 2.2 km
• Olaipadi 3.0 km
• Virakavundanur 3.8 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.