About Digar Village

Digar is a small village in Jawalamukhi tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 277, made up of 119 males and 158 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,328 females per 1000 males. The village covers 61.54 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176036, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Digar compares

By the 2011 count Digar is the 54th largest of the 121 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 312 residents. Its 61.54 hectares work out to about 4.5 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1107.

Getting to Digar

Digar 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 Digar as Available within <5 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within village. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Digar from other places

Digar lies about 33 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Amb Andaura, about 24 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 Digar

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

• Makhror under 2 km
• Lakhwal under 2 km
• Sasan under 2 km
• Ghurkal under 2 km
• Purtiala under 2 km
• Dhanot 1.5 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.