The main commercial interests of the municipality are rice hulling, coconut oil extraction, ghee production, and groundnut cultivation.

[8] Rice procured from the Thanjavur and Cauvery Delta regions in Tamil Nadu and from other states like Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh are also brought to Kangeyam for processing.

Nowadays, Kangeyam is among the major coconut oil producing regions of India; coconut oil produced here is marketed across Tamil Nadu and other states such as Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh.

[4] In the production of oil, coconut kernels are first dried on large fields made for this purpose.

Kangeyam is also a famous city for vehicle body building(container and open type).

Many spinning mills and knit cloth manufacturing units are located in Kangeyam as the city is close the textile hub of Tiruppur.

[4] The Kangeyam bull is known for its superior draught strength and adaptability to poor nutritional conditions.

[17] According to the 2011 Census of India, Kangeyam had a population of 32,147 with a ratio of 987 females for every 1,000 males, higher than the national average of 929.

[25] M. P. Saminathan (DMK) represents Kangeyam Constituency in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.

[29][30][31][32] In this temple, it is customary to perform special pujas by placing certain objects in a glass box named Aandavan Kattalai.

Legend says that Lord Sivanmalai Murugan appears in the dreams of devotees and selects the object of worship periodically.

Devotees then proceed to place it inside the glass box in the room opposite the garbagriha in the temple.

Worship will continue with the object already placed until Lord Murugan comes in the dream of another devotee and tells them what object to keep inside the glass box for worship TFamous murugan temple ,siththar temple and utchi pillayar temples are located here There is a 54-bed government hospital in Kangeyam which has been upgraded into a district headquarters government hospital.