Ambattur is located in the northwest part of Chennai City, in Ambattur taluk of the Chennai District, surrounded by Anna Nagar, Padi, Mogappair, Surapet, Korattur, and Ayappakkam. The neighborhood is served by the Ambattur railway station of the Chennai Suburban Railway. Ambattur has its origins in a village of the same name which can be located at present as areas opposite to Ambattur telephone exchange. Ambattur was a village with large extents of agricultural farmlands irrigated by the once-sprawling Ambattur Lake. In 2011, the neighborhood had a population of 466,205. During the 2015 floods when most areas of Chennai was stranded in water, Ambattur was not much flooded like other neighbourhood of Chennai City.
