About Silkajhodi Village

Silkajhodi is a small village in Lohandiguda tehsil, in the district of Bastar, Chhattisgarh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 158, made up of 77 males and 81 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,052 females per 1000 males. The village covers 241.17 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 494442, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Silkajhodi Overview

Census 2011 figures for Silkajhodi village
Description	Value
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Bastar
Tehsil	Lohandiguda
Pincode	494442
Area (hectares)	241.17 hectares
Population	158
Male Population	77
Female Population	81
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	1,052
Bus Service (public)	Available
Bus Service (private)	Available within 5 - 10 km distance
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Silkajhodi compares

By the 2011 count Silkajhodi is the 75th largest of the 82 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 925 residents. Its 241.17 hectares work out to about 0.7 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, much in line with the tehsil average of 1054.

Getting to Silkajhodi

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

How far is Silkajhodi from other places

Silkajhodi lies about 35 km from Bastar, and the nearest railway station is Silak Jhori, about 2.3 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 Silkajhodi
Nearest railway station	Silak Jhori	2.3 km
Tehsil headquarters	Lohandiguda	19 km
District headquarters	Bastar	35 km
Nearest town	Jagdalpur	36 km

Villages closest to Silkajhodi

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

As per the Census of India 2011, Silkajhodi village had a population of 158. That makes it the 75th largest of the 82 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 925 residents.

Silkajhodi village has 77 males and 81 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Silkajhodi has about 1052 females for every 1000 males. In short, women outnumber men here, much in line with the tehsil average of 1054.

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

Silkajhodi covers 241.17 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 0.7 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Silkajhodi falls under Lohandiguda tehsil of Bastar district in Chhattisgarh.

The nearest railway station to Silkajhodi is Silak Jhori, about 2.3 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 and private bus service as Available within 5 - 10 km distance for Silkajhodi.

Silkajhodi is about 35 km from Bastar in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Silkajhodi is in Lohandiguda tehsil of Bastar district. Silak Jhori is about 2.3 km away. Lohandiguda is about 19 km away. Bastar is about 35 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.