Kilvelur taluk is a taluk of Nagapattinam district 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 Kilvelur

Kilvelur

Kilvelur is a panchayat town in Nagapattinam district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is 12 km east of Tiruvarur, 12 km west of Nagapattinam and 6 km west of Sikkal a famous Muruga shrine...

Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Kilvelur had a population of 127,580 with 62,588 males and 64,992 females. There were 1038 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 74.76. The total number of households was 31,152.