 The town had a total of 24216 households.There were a total of 37,459 workers, comprising 173 cultivators, 440 main agricultural labourers, 624 in house hold industries, 35,357 other workers, 865 marginal workers, 21 marginal cultivators, 98 marginal agricultural labourers, 39 marginal workers in household industries and 707 other marginal workers.As per the religious census of 2011, Veerappanchatiram had 92.31% Hindus, 5.48% Muslims, 2.14% Christians, 0.03% Sikhs and 0.03% following other religions.