It is under the administration of Repalle Revenue Division and the headquarters are located at Nizampatnam.

[4] Named after the Nizam of Hyderabad and natively known as Peddapalli mandal,[5] it was also referred as Petapoly by the Dutch settlers[6] and by the British as Pettipolee or Pettipoly.

5,738 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 3,018 are boys and 2,720 are girls.

The average literacy rate stands at 62.64% with 33,970 literates.

Nizampatnam mandal is one of the 4 mandals under Repalle (Assembly constituency), which in turn represents Bapatla (SC) (Lok Sabha constituency) of Andhra Pradesh.