The National Waterway – 3 Kollam – Kottapuram passes through the western end of the village.

Madaplathuruth lies in the flat delta region of the Periyar river and is cut by several canals, which have resulted in the formation of many islands.

The rest of the people were engaged in khadi cloth manufacturing, handloom and building construction fields.

The same village is famous for its highly skilled manpower in construction, wooden works, sweet sand miners from the river Periyar.

The kingfisher (നീലപ്പൊന്മാന്‍) is common in this island and other birds include black bulbul (depending on the season) brown falcon, crow, woodpecker, sparrow, raven, pigeon, African fish eagle and cuckoo.

There are many sarpa kavu (abode of snakes, സര്‍പ്പക്കാവ്) near to the Hindu Nair homes and temples.

An upper primary school within a distance of 1.5 km is available for more than 96% of the people, whose 98% benefit the facility for secondary education within 5 km.The access for village students to higher educational institutions like engineering, medical, arts, science, TTC, M.edu, ITCs are within a distance of 3 km and are facilitated by widely subsidised transport fares.

There is another clinic is running in south madaplathuruth governed by Sisters of Saint Elisabeth.

In the past, most of the men were coir, khadi "കയർ, ഖാദി "workers but now, most of the village's population is employed in the construction, and marble industry and also few people are in abroad( mainly in Gulf) and in IT industries(Bangalore, Hyderabad,and Mumbai.

Sisters of St Elizabeth run child sponsorship programs in this village, Without considering The religion or cast they are selecting children and they will arrange a sponsor from Italy, Switzerland and other European nations.

They use the funds directly for the child and their immediate community or family for their school fees and other educational needs.

[3] The people tend to co-operative and conservative, and the main religions are Hindus(Ezava,Nair,Dhevara,Harijans"ഈഴവ, നായർ, ഹരിജൻ"), Christians "ക്രിസ്ത്യൻ"(Catholics, Protestant) and a few Muslims"മുസ്ലിം" etc.