About Jasun Village

Jasun is a small village in Palampur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 455, made up of 221 males and 234 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,059 females per 1000 males. The village covers 50.07 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176085, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Jasun compares

By the 2011 count Jasun is the 131st largest of the 365 villages in the tehsil, which puts it close to average, where the typical village holds 469 residents. Its 50.07 hectares work out to about 9.1 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, much in line with the tehsil average of 1062.

Getting to Jasun

Jasun 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 Jasun 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 Jasun from other places

Jasun lies about 21 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Sulah Himachal Pradesh, about 2.1 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 Jasun

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

• Sidhpur Sarkari under 2 km
• Bhatu Palam under 2 km
• Menjha Buhla under 2 km
• Mohrla under 2 km
• Arla Khas 1.5 km
• Kathiara 1.9 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.