Uthukkottai 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 Uthukkottai

Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Uthukkottai had a population of 130,919 with 65,035 males and 65,884 females. There were 1013 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 65.7. The total number of households was 31,346.