About Jhagehr Village

Jhagehr is a small village in Palampur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 157, made up of 76 males and 81 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,066 females per 1000 males. The village covers 23.11 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176085, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Jhagehr compares

By the 2011 count Jhagehr is the 296th largest of the 365 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 469 residents. Its 23.11 hectares work out to about 6.8 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, much in line with the tehsil average of 1062.

Getting to Jhagehr

Jhagehr 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 Jhagehr 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 Jhagehr from other places

Jhagehr lies about 24 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Sulah Himachal Pradesh, about 13 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 Jhagehr

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

• Jagehr under 2 km
• Bohrkar under 2 km
• Darman 1.8 km
• Salan 2.2 km
• Lahru 2.3 km
• Lulehr 2.6 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.