About Chilhari Village

Chilhari is one of the larger villages in Dumraon tehsil, in the district of Buxar, Bihar. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 6,207, made up of 3,259 males and 2,948 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 905 females per 1000 males. The village covers 517.2 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 802133, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Chilhari compares

By the 2011 count Chilhari is the 9th largest of the 72 villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 2,484 residents. Its 517.2 hectares work out to about 12 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, a little below the tehsil average of 937.

Getting to Chilhari

Chilhari is a little way from the nearest bus route, and further still from the railway. The census records public bus service for Chilhari as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Chilhari from other places

Chilhari lies about 12 km from Buxar, and the nearest railway station is Baruna, about 3.8 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Villages closest to Chilhari

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Dumraon tehsil.

• Marwatia under 2 km
• Partap Sagar 1.7 km
• Chanda 2.3 km
• Kusalpur 3.6 km
• Bhojpur Kadim 3.8 km
• Kulhawa 4.8 km

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.