Coonoor
Coonoor is a town in The Nilgiris district of Tamilnadu and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Taluk and Panchayat Samiti of The Nilgiris district.
As on April 2024, the current population of Coonoor is 48.6 thousands out of which 23.6 thousands are males and rest 25 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 1058 females per 1000 males. There are around 3.8 thousands teenagers in Coonoor. It has literacy rate of 85% which means around 41.2 thousands persons can read and write. Total 13.6 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 113 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 13.2 thousands households in Coonoor, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 18.6 thousands.
These 1 villages comes under Coonoor Nagar Parishad.
Schools
Coonoor has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Coonoor
- St Josephs Convent Anglo Indian Girls Higher Secondary School, Coonoor
- Holy Innocents High School
- St.Antony's Hr. Secondary School, Coonoor
- St.Marys (G) Higher Secondary School Coonoor
Coonoor Panchayat Samiti
N. Sunitha is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Coonoor, who can be contacted at email address coonoorbdo@gmail.com and mobile number 82480xxx18. The Block landline number is 0423-223**27. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is K. Sreetharan, who can be reached at email address sreetharan.1974@gmail.com and mobile number 74026xxx07. The Block address is Coonoor Panchayat Union, Coonoor, Pincode - 643102. You can reach there by taking a bus till Coonoor bus stop which is less than a km away. The Block has internet facility.Coonoor Panchayat Samiti consists of total 6 Gram Panchayat.
Other villages in Coonoor Taluk
Coonoor Taluk has total 10 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.