About Lalpur Village

Lalpur is a large village in Manendragarh tehsil, in the district of Koriya, Chhattisgarh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 2,405, made up of 1,253 males and 1,152 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 919 females per 1000 males. The village covers 668.72 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 497442, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Lalpur compares

By the 2011 count Lalpur is among the largest villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 647 residents. Its 668.72 hectares work out to about 3.6 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, well below the tehsil average of 995.

Getting to Lalpur

Lalpur 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 Lalpur as Available. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. 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 Lalpur from other places

Lalpur lies about 40 km from Koriya, and the nearest railway station is Paradol, about 21 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 Lalpur

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

• Lai 7.1 km
• Pipariya 15 km
• Lohari 18 km
• Rojhi 19 km
• Pendri 25 km
• Chanwaridand 25 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.