About Donwan Village

Donwan is a large village in Sakra tehsil, in the district of Muzaffarpur, Bihar. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 4,326, made up of 2,220 males and 2,106 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 949 females per 1000 males. The village covers 174 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 843105, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Donwan compares

By the 2011 count Donwan is the 15th largest of the 120 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 2,537 residents. Its 174 hectares work out to about 25 people per hectare, densely settled for a rural area. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, though that is well above the tehsil average of 902.

Getting to Donwan

Donwan 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 Donwan as Available within village. 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 Chhapra Farid, Chhapra Faridpur Urf Misraulia, Dharampur Susta and Dihri Buzurg. 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.