About Jin Village

Jin is a mid sized village in Dera Gopipur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 671, made up of 297 males and 374 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,259 females per 1000 males. The village covers 91.05 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 177101, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Jin compares

By the 2011 count Jin is the 53rd largest of the 274 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 416 residents. Its 91.05 hectares work out to about 7.4 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1082.

Getting to Jin

Jin is served by buses within the village, though the nearest railway station is further out. The census records public bus service for Jin 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 10+ km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Jin from other places

Jin lies about 25 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Jawalamukhi Road, about 17 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 Jin

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

• Ghar Lahr under 2 km
• Darek Lahr under 2 km
• Kalru under 2 km
• Kalru Kalan under 2 km
• Badoli under 2 km
• Mao Kundli 1.8 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.