About Gurehr Village

Gurehr is a small village in Jawalamukhi tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 403, made up of 188 males and 215 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,144 females per 1000 males. The village covers 43.01 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176036, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Gurehr compares

By the 2011 count Gurehr is the 31st largest of the 121 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 312 residents. Its 43.01 hectares work out to about 9.4 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, a little above the tehsil average of 1107.

Getting to Gurehr

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

How far is Gurehr from other places

Gurehr lies about 29 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Jawalamukhi Road, about 21 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 Gurehr

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

• Panjlehr under 2 km
• Salehr under 2 km
• Jol under 2 km
• Ghalora under 2 km
• Pher under 2 km
• Jajwar 1.6 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.