About Melputhur Village

Melputhur is a small village in Cheyyar tehsil, in the district of Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 459, made up of 225 males and 234 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,040 females per 1000 males. The village covers 179.41 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 604504, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Melputhur Overview

Census 2011 figures for Melputhur village
Description	Value
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Tiruvannamalai
Tehsil	Cheyyar
Pincode	604504
Area (hectares)	179.41 hectares
Population	459
Male Population	225
Female Population	234
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	1,040
Bus Service (public)	Available within village
Bus Service (private)	Available within village
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 21 km distance

How Melputhur compares

By the 2011 count Melputhur is the 193rd largest of the 215 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 1,341 residents. Its 179.41 hectares work out to about 2.6 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 994.

Getting to Melputhur

Melputhur 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 Melputhur 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 21 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Melputhur from other places

Melputhur lies about 78 km from Tiruvannamalai, and the nearest railway station is Pakkam, about 24 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.

Distances from Melputhur
Nearest town	Uttiramerūr	8.7 km
Tehsil headquarters	Cheyyar	17 km
Nearest railway station	Pakkam	24 km
District headquarters	Tiruvannamalai	78 km

Villages closest to Melputhur

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

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.

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Common questions about Melputhur

As per the Census of India 2011, Melputhur village had a population of 459. That makes it the 193rd largest of the 215 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 1,341 residents.

Melputhur village has 225 males and 234 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Melputhur has about 1040 females for every 1000 males. In short, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 994.

The pincode recorded for Melputhur is 604504. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Melputhur covers 179.41 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 2.6 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads.

Melputhur falls under Cheyyar tehsil of Tiruvannamalai district in Tamil Nadu.

The nearest railway station to Melputhur is Pakkam, about 24 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available within 21 km distance.

The census records public bus service as Available within village and private bus service as Available within village for Melputhur.

Melputhur is about 78 km from Tiruvannamalai in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Melputhur is in Cheyyar tehsil of Tiruvannamalai district. Uttiramerūr is about 8.7 km away. Cheyyar is about 17 km away. Pakkam is about 24 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.