About Barkura Village

Barkura is a mid sized village in Biswanath tehsil, in the district of Sonitpur, Assam. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,010, made up of 512 males and 498 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 973 females per 1000 males. The village covers 297.57 hectares hectares.

How Barkura compares

By the 2011 count Barkura is the 120th largest of the 346 villages in the tehsil, which puts it close to average, where the typical village holds 931 residents. Its 297.57 hectares work out to about 3.4 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, a little above the tehsil average of 958.

Getting to Barkura

Barkura is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Barkura as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. The nearest villages by name are Bargang T E 575 348, Bargang T E 59 117, Barjarani Bangali and Barjarani Mikir. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.