About Gangavaram Village

Gangavaram is a large village in Polur tehsil, in the district of Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 4,756, made up of 2,438 males and 2,318 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 951 females per 1000 males. The village covers 1234.38 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 606901, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Gangavaram compares

By the 2011 count Gangavaram is the 11th largest of the 182 villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 2,130 residents. Its 1234.38 hectares work out to about 3.9 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 well below the tehsil average of 996.

Getting to Gangavaram

Gangavaram 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 Gangavaram 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 20 km distance. The nearest villages by name are Eruvattani, Ettivady, Eyakolathur and Gangalamahadevi. 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.