The total population is constituted of 1,221 males, 1,229 females, and 203 children in the age group of 0–6 years.

[4] A Chidananda ashram was built in the village in 1966 with land allotted by Sri Adusumilli Nagayya.

[8] Panuri Sundaramma (died 1960) and her husband, Venkata Reddy, participated in the independence struggle and they were arrested on 27 June 1932.

She was sentenced to ten months' imprisonment for distributing pro-Congress bulletins on 16 March 1933, and was later released on 31 August 1933 as a term of the Gandhi–Irwin Pact.

A few days later the decision was reversed and Nandivada was given its own mandal status, under the suggestion of Dasari Gopala Krishna.

Gopala Krishna was NTR's close friend and fellow actor and he would also enter politics, serving as Nandivada's panchayat president from 1988 to his death in 1992.