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ABSTRACT: Urban Centre is always being an attraction of surrounding people. Industrialization and urbanization have resulted in a large number of migrations from rural areas towards the city for large employment opportunities to improve the living standard. Coimbatore city is one of the second biggest urban centre after Chennai city in Tamilnadu, The city were which has more agriculture land open land, wasteland, and dry land categories changing into urban aspect like residential and industrial and |Educational categories. The selected study area is Coimbatore Corporation. In this paper analyzed the land use changes for the two period of 1981 and 2011.Data collected from LPA (Local Planning Authority) and simple statistical calculation were made to find out the changes in land use pattern, The Arc Gis 10.3 Software were used for preparing the maps and representing different categories of land utilization of urban centre. The major findings of the study are more agricultural land is converted in to residential, educational and industrial uses so on.