About Shobhavad Village

Shobhavad is a large village in Talaja tehsil, in the district of Bhavnagar, Gujarat. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 3,654, made up of 1,845 males and 1,809 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 980 females per 1000 males. The village covers 745.22 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 364140, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Shobhavad compares

By the 2011 count Shobhavad is the 23rd largest of the 109 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 2,461 residents. Its 745.22 hectares work out to about 4.9 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, a little above the tehsil average of 953.

Getting to Shobhavad

Shobhavad 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 Shobhavad as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within <5 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. The nearest villages by name are Sankhadasar No 2, Sartanpar, Sathara and Shelavadar. 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.