Karaiyippatti
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Karaiyippatti | |
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city | |
  Karaiyippatti Location in Tamil Nadu, India | |
| Coordinates: 10°03′N 78°20′E / 10.05°N 78.33°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Madurai |
| Government | |
| • Panchayat | Karaiyippatti |
| Area | |
• Total | 664.9 km2 (256.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 149 m (489 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
• Total | 33,743 |
| • Density | 50.75/km2 (131.4/sq mi) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Tamil |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Vehicle registration | TN-59 |
| Website | www |
Karaiyippatti is a town and a municipality in the Madurai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Karaiyippatti is called Thaikramam ('Mother of Villages'). It is the biggest taluk within the Madurai District.
Karaiyippatti is a manufacturer and exporter of ploughs. Granite production is an important industry; granite from Karaiyippatti is exported around the world. Situated within a largely agricultural area, most of the people living around Karaiyippatti are employed in agriculture, chiefly in the cultivation of rice.
Karaiyippatti has an average elevation of 149 metres (489 ft). To get the directions www
Demographics
As of the census of India 2001, Karaiyippatti had a population of 33,881 comprising 17,238 males and 16,643 females, making the sex ratio (number of females per thousand males) of the town 965. A total of 3,947 people were under six years of age and the child sex ratio (number of females per thousand males under six years of age) stood at 900. The town had an average literacy of 84.74%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. A total of 3,978 comprising 13.29% of the population belonged to Scheduled Castes (SC) and 148 comprising 0.49% of the population belonged to Scheduled tribes (ST). There were a total of 7,651 households in the town. As of 2001, Karaiyippatti had a total of 10,534 main workers: 699 cultivators, 821 agricultural labourers, 211 in household industries and 8,803 other workers. There was a total of 664 marginal workers: 56 marginal cultivators, 190 marginal agricultural labourers, 31 marginal workers in household industries and 387 other marginal workers.[1]