Gummidipoondi 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 Gummidipoondi

Gummidipoondi

Gummidipoondi is an industrial town in Thiruvallur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.Gummdipoondi lies on the National Highway 5 from Chennai to Calcutta. This road is part of the Golden Quadrilateral which is a project launched by the Vajpayee Government...

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Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Gummidipoondi had a population of 159,598 with 80,486 males and 79.112 females. There were 983 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 63.6. The total number of households was 37330.