About Balua Murat Ray Village

Balua Murat Ray is a mid sized village in Jogapatti tehsil, in the district of Pashchim Champaran, Bihar. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 699, made up of 366 males and 333 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 910 females per 1000 males. The village covers 175.7 hectares hectares.

Balua Murat Ray Overview

Census 2011 figures for Balua Murat Ray village
Description	Value
State	Bihar
District	Pashchim Champaran
Tehsil	Jogapatti
Area (hectares)	175.7 hectares
Population	699
Male Population	366
Female Population	333
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	910
Bus Service (public)	Available within village
Bus Service (private)	Available within 5 - 10 km distance
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Balua Murat Ray compares

By the 2011 count Balua Murat Ray is the 78th largest of the 96 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 2,361 residents. Its 175.7 hectares work out to about 4.0 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, much in line with the tehsil average of 899.

Getting to Balua Murat Ray

Balua Murat Ray is served by buses within the village, though the nearest railway station is further out. The census records public bus service for Balua Murat Ray as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within 10+ km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Balua Murat Ray from other places

Balua Murat Ray lies about 16 km from Pashchim Champaran, and the nearest railway station is Kumarbagh, about 19 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.

Distances from Balua Murat Ray
Tehsil headquarters	Jogapatti	2.7 km
District headquarters	Pashchim Champaran	16 km
Nearest railway station	Kumarbagh	19 km
Nearest town	Bettiah	21 km

Villages closest to Balua Murat Ray

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

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.

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Common questions about Balua Murat Ray

As per the Census of India 2011, Balua Murat Ray village had a population of 699. That makes it the 78th largest of the 96 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 2,361 residents.

Balua Murat Ray village has 366 males and 333 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Balua Murat Ray has about 910 females for every 1000 males. In short, there are noticeably fewer women than men, much in line with the tehsil average of 899.

Balua Murat Ray covers 175.7 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 4.0 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads.

Balua Murat Ray falls under Jogapatti tehsil of Pashchim Champaran district in Bihar.

The nearest railway station to Balua Murat Ray is Kumarbagh, about 19 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available within 10+ km distance.

The census records public bus service as Available within village and private bus service as Available within 5 - 10 km distance for Balua Murat Ray.

Balua Murat Ray is about 16 km from Pashchim Champaran in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Balua Murat Ray is in Jogapatti tehsil of Pashchim Champaran district. Jogapatti is about 2.7 km away. Pashchim Champaran is about 16 km away. Kumarbagh is about 19 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.