Mettupalayam taluk is a taluk of Coimbatore district

Coimbatore District

Coimbatore District is one of the more affluent and industrially advanced districts of the state of Tamil Nadu in India. Coimbatore is known as the Manchester of South India. It one of the most industrialized towns of Tamil Nadu. It has the highest GDP among the districts of Tamil Nadu, even ahead...

 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 Mettupalayam.

Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Mettupalayam had a population of 237,805 with 120,276 males and 117,509 females. There were 977 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 71.9. The total number of households was 61,752.