About Silakjhodi Village

Silakjhodi is a small village in Bastanar tehsil, in the district of Bastar, Chhattisgarh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 387, made up of 160 males and 227 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,419 females per 1000 males. The village covers 295.03 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 494442, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Silakjhodi Overview

Census 2011 figures for Silakjhodi village
Description	Value
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Bastar
Tehsil	Bastanar
Pincode	494442
Area (hectares)	295.03 hectares
Population	387
Male Population	160
Female Population	227
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	1,419
Bus Service (public)	Available
Bus Service (private)	Available within 5 - 10 km distance
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 5 - 10 km distance

How Silakjhodi compares

By the 2011 count Silakjhodi is the 29th largest of the 42 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 1,144 residents. Its 295.03 hectares work out to about 1.3 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1096.

Getting to Silakjhodi

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

How far is Silakjhodi from other places

Silakjhodi lies about 36 km from Bastar, and the nearest railway station is Silak Jhori, about under 2 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 Silakjhodi
Nearest railway station	Silak Jhori	under 2 km
Tehsil headquarters	Bastanar	12 km
District headquarters	Bastar	36 km
Nearest town	Jagdalpur	37 km

Villages closest to Silakjhodi

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Bastanar 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 Silakjhodi

As per the Census of India 2011, Silakjhodi village had a population of 387. That makes it the 29th largest of the 42 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 1,144 residents.

Silakjhodi village has 160 males and 227 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Silakjhodi has about 1419 females for every 1000 males. In short, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1096.

The pincode recorded for Silakjhodi is 494442. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Silakjhodi covers 295.03 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 1.3 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Silakjhodi falls under Bastanar tehsil of Bastar district in Chhattisgarh.

The nearest railway station to Silakjhodi is Silak Jhori, about under 2 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available within 5 - 10 km distance.

The census records public bus service as Available and private bus service as Available within 5 - 10 km distance for Silakjhodi.

Silakjhodi is about 36 km from Bastar in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Silakjhodi is in Bastanar tehsil of Bastar district. Silak Jhori is about under 2 km away. Bastanar is about 12 km away. Bastar is about 36 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.