By population, Aracode ranks #10 of 16 villages in Kotagiri mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Aracode is a village of 781 people in 189 households (Census 2011) in Kotagiri taluk, The Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, the 10th-largest of 16 villages in Kotagiri taluk. Literacy is 62%, 12 points below the taluk average of 74% and the sex ratio is 1,023 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 643231, served by Wellington post office; the LGD village code is 635103. The population is estimated at 921 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Aracode →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aracode · this village | 781 | 62% | — |
| Nandipuram · Kotagiri | 172 | 66% | — |
| Kokkode · Kotagiri | 147 | 54% | — |
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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