About Athikkottai Village

Athikkottai is a mid sized village in Pattukkottai tehsil, in the district of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,827, made up of 854 males and 973 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,139 females per 1000 males. The village covers 477.99 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 614906, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Athikkottai compares

By the 2011 count Athikkottai is the 62nd largest of the 164 villages in the tehsil, which puts it close to average, where the typical village holds 1,677 residents. Its 477.99 hectares work out to about 3.8 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1090.

Getting to Athikkottai

Athikkottai 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 Athikkottai 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 Athikkottai from other places

Athikkottai lies about 34 km from Thanjavur. 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 Athikkottai

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

• Talikkottai 5.8 km
• Parasuramanendal 6.0 km
• Avaikkottai 8.9 km
• Andami 12 km
• Karuppur 12 km
• Olayakunnam 13 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.