Ambattur taluk is a taluk of Tiruvallur district

Tiruvallur District

Tiruvallur district is an administrative district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The town of Thiruvallur is the district headquarters. The district has a mixture of urban and rural characteristics...

 of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Ambattur

Ambattur

-Administration:Ambattur comes under the new Sriperumbudur parliamentary constituency. It was previously under the North Chennai parliamentary constituency and along with Villivakkam, it was the largest assembly constituency in India. The delimitation process of assembly constituencies has given...

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Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Ambattur had a population of 1,006,898 with 516,576 males and 490,322 females. There were 949 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 85.18. The total number of households was 233101.