About Saloh Village

Saloh is a mid sized village in Palampur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,853, made up of 907 males and 946 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,043 females per 1000 males. The village covers 283.85 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176102, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Saloh compares

By the 2011 count Saloh is among the largest villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 469 residents. Its 283.85 hectares work out to about 6.5 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, though that is a little below the tehsil average of 1062.

Getting to Saloh

Saloh 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 Saloh 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 Saloh from other places

Saloh lies about 22 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Sulah Himachal Pradesh, about 1.5 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 Saloh

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

• Raipur Khas under 2 km
• Bhatu Palam under 2 km
• Salri under 2 km
• Arla Khas 1.5 km
• Thamba I 1.7 km
• Thamba Ii 1.7 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.