Suriyampalayam is a

panchayat town A nagar panchayat () or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,00 ...

in the city of

Erode Erode (; īrōṭu), is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Kaveri river and is surrounded by the Western Ghats. Erode is the seventh largest urban agglomeration in Tamil Nadu. It is the administrativ ...

in the Indian state of

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. It is the Headquarters for one of the four zones of

Erode Municipal Corporation Erode City Municipal Corporation is a civic administrative body that governs the City of Erode, India. The Corporation consists of a legislative body, headed by the City Mayor and an executive body headed by the Corporation Commissioner. The Co ...

. In 2011, Suriyampalayam was an independent panchayat town, but has since been merged with

during the Corporation expansion that happened in 2011. The office of Suriyampalayam Zone-I and city bank, Bank of Baroda, is located at Javuli Nagar along the Bhavani Road, although there are other local banks in the area. Its higher post office is located in Kavandapadi. According to one source, some of Suriyampalayam's textile units are major contributors to Erode's difficulty with pollution, due to its position next to the

Kaveri The Kaveri (also known as Cauvery) is a Rivers of India, major river flowing across Southern India. It is the third largest river in the region after Godavari River, Godavari and Krishna River, Krishna. The catchment area of the Kaveri basin i ...

River. Leather products, cloths and milk were considered the three most important manufactured commodities in the 2011 Census. * Suriyampalayam's local government has administration over 8,153 houses and 15 wards. * Suriyampalayam has approximately 25 schools and colleges: 8 primary schools, 8 middle schools, 4 secondary schools and 3 colleges. * As of 2009, Suriyamplayam gets an average annual precipitation of 708.6 millimeters and has an average minimum:maximum temperature of 19.2°C:33.7°C. * Suriyampalayam has 17 kilometres of road infrastructure and 3566 communal latrines.

Demographics

As of the 2011 Indian Census, Suriyampalayam had a population of 28,585, a 2.7% increase from the 2001 Census. * Males and females both constitute 50% of the population; 48:52 male-female ratio for scheduled castes and tribes. * Suriyampalayam has an average

literacy rate Literacy is the ability to read and write, while illiteracy refers to an inability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was ...

of 76.7%: 84.4% for males and 69.12% for females, higher than the national average of 72.9%. *

Unemployment rate Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is the proportion of people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work d ...

is Suriyampalayam is 46.2%; 2.9% are

self-employed Self-employment is the state of working for oneself rather than an employer. Tax authorities will generally view a person as self-employed if the person chooses to be recognised as such or if the person is generating income for which a tax return ...

and 13% income on jobs based around agriculture. * 26% of the population is part of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. *10.54% of the population is under the age of 6. *94.9% of the population follows

Hinduism Hinduism () is an Hypernymy and hyponymy, umbrella term for a range of Indian religions, Indian List of religions and spiritual traditions#Indian religions, religious and spiritual traditions (Sampradaya, ''sampradaya''s) that are unified ...

. *24% of people in Suriyampalayam were described as 'slum dwellers' in the 2011 Census.

References

Neighbourhoods in Erode {{Erode-geo-stub