Overview

Chitlapakkam is a fast-developing suburb, located about 7 km from the Chennai International Airport. It is near to Tambaram. Land values grew as the demographics favoured software professionals working with various IT Companies in Sholinganallur or OMR as the IT super highway is just 9 km away from Chitlapakkam. Tambaram Sanatorium railway station is nearby (2 km). This developing township is located in such a way that major suburbs such as Pallavaram

Pallavaram

Pallavapuram Municipality was constituted as a III Grade Municipality on 17.01.1970 vide G.o.No. 55 R.D. & L.A. Department dated 12.01.1970, by Combining the following Town Panchayats and Panchayats.* Zamin Pallavaram Town Panchayat* Issa Pallavaram Town Panchayat...

, Chromepet

Chromepet

Chromepet is a township in the southern part of Chennai, India. It lies on the Grand Southern Trunk Road, close to Tambaram and next to Pallavaram, Well connected by Road and Railways. It is 4 km south of the Anna International Airport, Meenambakkam. It is the home of the Madras Institute of...

, Selaiyur

Selaiyur

Selaiyur is a town near Tambaram, Chennai. This town is located on the Tambaram - Velachery Road. Once upon a time, this place was called as Silaiyur...

, Tambaram Sanatorium

Tambaram Sanatorium

Tambaram Sanatorium is a locality and railway station on the Chennai Beach - Tambaram section of the Chennai suburban railway.It was originally a part of Tambaram, but later developed as a separate town due to the railway station and the TB Sanatorium and the Madras Export Processing Zone MEPZ)...

, Tambaram

Tambaram

Tambaram is a suburb of Chennai situated 27 km south of the city in Tamil Nadu, India. It is an urban node. Tambaram is a hub to all major destinations in south Tamil Nadu as it lies on the busy Chennai–Trichy national highway. The highway and the railway line from Chennai Egmore to...

, etc. can be reached within 10 minutes. Rapid development has led to increased pollution.

The main attraction near the area is the famed Kumaran Kundram

Kumaran Kundram

Lord Murugan's temple is situated on the top of a small hillock at Kumaran Kundram near Madras Institute of Technology, not far from Chennai in India. One can have a panoromic view of Chromepet from the top of the hill at which the present Hindu shrine was built in the 1970s...

 temple of Lord Muruga atop the hill is a 15 minutes walk from here.

The Chitlapakkam Lake has water almost all throughout the year; there are plans to modernise it with boating facilities.

Chitlappakkam and Sithalapakkam

Sithalapakkam

Sithalapakkam is a suburb of south Chennai, India. It is about 3 km away from Medavakkam. Its new PIN is 600126. Its older PIN Codes were 600073 and 601302. On one side of Sithalapakkam there is a lake, on its rear side there is a hill. Some portion of this hill is cutout for sand and stone....

 are frequently mistaken with Chitlapakkam, as both are suburbs of Tambaram. Chitlappakkam is the more developed and well-established suburb. The famous Madras Institute of Technology, home to alumni including former President and scientist Dr Abdul Kalam is located near Chromepet Station and is very near Chitalapakkam.

Demographics

India census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Chitlapakkam had a population of 25,292. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Chitlapakkam has an average literacy rate of 84%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 86% and female literacy of 82%. 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.