About Balva Village

Balva is a large village in Jamjodhpur tehsil, in the district of Jamnagar, Gujarat. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 2,104, made up of 1,097 males and 1,007 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 918 females per 1000 males. The village covers 1780.62 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 360530, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Balva compares

By the 2011 count Balva is the 17th largest of the 69 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 1,545 residents. Its 1780.62 hectares work out to about 1.2 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, well below the tehsil average of 959.

Getting to Balva

Balva 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 Balva as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within village. The nearest villages by name are Ambardi Jam, Ambardi Meghpar, Ambardi Mevasa and Amrapar. 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.