About Jol Village

Jol is a small village in Palampur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 270, made up of 124 males and 146 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,177 females per 1000 males. The village covers 61.3 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176064, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Jol compares

By the 2011 count Jol is the 232nd largest of the 365 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 469 residents. Its 61.3 hectares work out to about 4.4 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1062.

Getting to Jol

Jol 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 Jol 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 Jol from other places

Jol lies about 17 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Paror, about 3.5 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 Jol

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

• Ghartholi under 2 km
• Panapari Khas under 2 km
• Kholi under 2 km
• Thera under 2 km
• Dodan Khola 1.9 km
• Paror Khas 2.5 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.