About Sonaidih Village

Sonaidih is a small village in Akaltara tehsil, in the district of Janjgir Champa, Chhattisgarh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 277, made up of 157 males and 120 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 764 females per 1000 males. The village covers 90.57 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 495552, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Sonaidih compares

By the 2011 count Sonaidih is the 70th largest of the 74 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 1,963 residents. Its 90.57 hectares work out to about 3.1 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 950.

Getting to Sonaidih

Sonaidih 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 Sonaidih 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 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Sonaidih from other places

Sonaidih lies about 32 km from Janjgir Champa, and the nearest railway station is Kotmi Sonar, about 31 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 Sonaidih

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

• Son under 2 km
• Nawapara 16 km
• Jhilmila 19 km
• Sonsari 21 km
• Nariyara 22 km
• Banahil 23 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.