Salem taluk is a taluk of Salem district

Salem District

Salem District is a district of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Salem is the district headquarters. Other major towns in the district are Mettur, Omalur and Attur...

 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.

Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Salem had a population of 1,071,211 with 548,109 males and 523,102 females. There were 954 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 72.25. The total number of households was 255,102.