About Sumerpur Village

Sumerpur is a mid sized village in Bijaipur tehsil, in the district of Gopalganj, Bihar. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 927, made up of 426 males and 501 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,176 females per 1000 males. The village covers 58 hectares hectares.

How Sumerpur compares

By the 2011 count Sumerpur is the 50th largest of the 117 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,090 residents. Its 58 hectares work out to about 16 people per hectare, densely settled for a rural area. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1101.

Getting to Sumerpur

The census records public bus service for Sumerpur as Available within <5 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 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 Sumerpur from other places

Sumerpur lies about 71 km from Gopalganj, and the nearest railway station is Sanwara, about 16 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 Sumerpur

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

• Maheshpur under 2 km
• Mitupur under 2 km
• Panrepur under 2 km
• Rampurwa under 2 km
• Sukhpura under 2 km
• Udaypura under 2 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.