About Quilam Village

Quilam is a large village in Chengam tehsil, in the district of Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 3,556, made up of 1,751 males and 1,805 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,031 females per 1000 males. The village covers 615.5 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 605710, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Quilam compares

By the 2011 count Quilam is the 17th largest of the 116 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 2,109 residents. Its 615.5 hectares work out to about 5.8 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 964.

Getting to Quilam

Quilam 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 Quilam 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 38 km distance. The nearest villages by name are Porasapattu, Pudupattu, Pudurchengam and Puliyampatti. 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.