Thiruthuraipoondi is located at center of many towns like Mannargudi, Thiruvarur, Muthupet, Vedaranyam, Velankanni, Kilvelur.

The short-term Kuruvai and long-term Samba rice crops are cultivated depending on the water sources.

Thiruthuraipoondi Municipal Market is one of the important commercial centre, which supports the daily needs of population residing in and the surrounding rural areas & the town.

[6][7] The idol of Nataraja belonging to the temple is believed to have been stolen and smuggled abroad sometime after 1957, when it was last seen during a record-keeping exercise by the French Institute of Pondicherry.

The Idol Wing of the Tamil Nadu Criminal Investigation Department (IW-CID) has traced it to the Freer Gallery of Art in the United States.

[10] From 1957, the Nagapattinam parliament seat was held by the Indian National Congress for 4 times during 1957–1961,[11] 1962–67,[12] 1991–96,[13] and 1996–98[14] elections.

Thiruthuraipoondi comes under the Thiruthuraipoondi assembly constituency which elects a member to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly once every five years and it is a part of the Nagapattinam constituency which elects its member of Parliament (MP) once in five years.

The Thiruthuraipoondi Municipality has population of 24,404 of which 11,985 are males while 12,419 are females as per report released by Census India 2011 The functions of the municipality are devolved into six departments: general administration/personnel, engineering, revenue, health, town planning and information technology (IT).

Thiruthuraipoondi TNEB office located at Anna Nagar, Thruthuraipoondi and Thiruthuraipoondi Sub-power station located at Pallankoil, Tiruthuraipoondi water supply to the town was provided from Kollidam River at Thiruvaikavur.

Subsequently, the source segregation and dumping is carried out by the sanitary department of the municipality.the Compost Yard(4.50 Acres) is located at Vedhai road.

It was Nel Jayaraman who initiated this festival in 2007, when he, as the state coordinator of the campaign, had collected 15 indigenous seeds along with his mentor and guru Dr Nammalvar.

In 12 years, he and his followers, enthusiastic organic farmers and seed savers, have collected about 174 varieties, most of them on the verge of extinction, from various regions in Tamil Nadu.

NH-32 (ECR) connecting Chennai–Nagapattinam–Velankanni–Thiruthuraipoondi–Muthupet–Ramanathapuram–Thoothukudi–Kanyakumari, SH-23 Thiruthuraipoondi to Mayiladuthurai via Thiruvarur, SH-63 connecting Thanjavur–Vedharanyam and Kodiyakarai, Buses are available to lot of major towns like Thiruvarur, Mannargudi, Muthupet, Pattukkottai, Velankanni, Nagapattinam, Vedharanyam, Kilvelur, Kodiyakarai, Kumbakonam, Mayiladuthurai, Thanjavur, Trichy.

Also good number of buses plying to long-distance places like Coimbatore, Chennai, Madurai, Karur, Namakkal, Salem, Tirupur, Palani, Dindigul, Puducherry, Chidambaram, Kanchipuram, Viluppuram, Thiruchendur, Thoothukudi, Ramanathapuram, Ervadi, Sivagangai, Karaikudi, Thisayanvilai, Rameswaram, Mudukulathur, Sayalgudi and Bengaluru, Kulasekarapattinam, Tirunelveli Nagercoil Trivandrum as well.

TNSTC Ticket reservation counter in New busstand, State Express Transport Corporation (Tamil Nadu) (SETC) and several private bus operators ply to cities like Chennai, Puthucherry, Salem, Hosur, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Ramanathapuram, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli, Nagercoil, Soon SETC and TNSTC planned to operate services to Tirupathi, Vellore, Erode and Coimbatore.

The Government Higher Secondary School (formerly Board High School), founded by the British government in 1936.This is one of the largest and oldest government school in Thiruvarur district, the Bharathidasan University Model College located at Velur, Thiruthuraipoondi, one teacher training institute at Paruthichery, Thiruthuraipoondi, one Industrial training institutes (ITI) and polytechnic college at Korukkai, Thiruthuraipoondi.