About Bahama Village

Bahama is a large village in Lailunga tehsil, in the district of Raigarh, Chhattisgarh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 2,397, made up of 1,211 males and 1,186 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 979 females per 1000 males. The village covers 741.92 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 496220, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Bahama compares

By the 2011 count Bahama is the 8th largest of the 118 villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 1,024 residents. Its 741.92 hectares work out to about 3.2 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, though that is a little below the tehsil average of 1014.

Getting to Bahama

Bahama 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 Bahama 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. The nearest villages by name are Ainkra, Amapali, Angekela and Bagudega. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

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.