Mayyil is a Census Town and Grama Panchayat in Kannur District of Kerala State.

Total geographic area of mayyil census town is 12.77 km2 (4.93 sq mi).

Mayyil Grama Panchayat had total population of 29,649 which constitutes 13,810 males and 15,839 with an area spreads over 33.1 km2 (12.8 sq mi) and 6,387 households.

Almost every road in this grama panchayat in Kerala's Kannur district leads to or ends with a library.

The panchayat, which has a population of a little over 30,000 people in 33.08 km2 (12.77 sq mi) with a literacy rate of 93.52 percent, boasts 34 functioning libraries, the highest for a local body in Kerala state.