It resembles a tropical rainforest, and trees like teak and jackfruit are found in the Western Ghats region, growing alongside coconut, rubber, arecanut, and other crops.

Most of the people are farmers and they cultivate rubber, elachi, ginger, cardamom, clove, nutmeg, turmeric, pepper, cashew and other spices.

There are some third- and fourth-generation Tamil people, descendants of workers who came to work in the rubber plantations in Teekoy many decades ago.

As a legacy of the colonial era, a cantilever bridge still connects the two banks of the Meenachil River two kilometres above Teekoy.

A sizable proportion of the population is Syrian Christian (Syro-Malabar Catholic), but there is also a large minority of Muslims and Hindus.