About Makhror Village

Makhror is a small village in Jawalamukhi tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 247, made up of 117 males and 130 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,111 females per 1000 males. The village covers 63.55 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176036, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Makhror compares

By the 2011 count Makhror is the 63rd largest of the 121 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 312 residents. Its 63.55 hectares work out to about 3.9 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, much in line with the tehsil average of 1107.

Getting to Makhror

Makhror 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 Makhror 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 <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Makhror from other places

Makhror 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 Makhror

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

• Digar under 2 km
• Sasan under 2 km
• Lakhwal under 2 km
• Purtiala under 2 km
• Ghurkal under 2 km
• Jejal under 2 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.