About Punganur Village

Punganur is one of the larger villages in Arcot tehsil, in the district of Vellore, Tamil Nadu. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 5,497, made up of 2,809 males and 2,688 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 957 females per 1000 males. The village covers 1186.24 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 632507, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Punganur compares

By the 2011 count Punganur is the largest village in the tehsil by population, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 1,603 residents. Its 1186.24 hectares work out to about 4.6 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 1000.

Getting to Punganur

Punganur 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 Punganur 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 Pindithangal, Pinnanthangal, Ponnambalam and Poongodu. 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.