About Silhari Village

Silhari is a mid sized village in Kandaghat tehsil, in the district of Solan, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 637, made up of 331 males and 306 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 924 females per 1000 males. The village covers 141 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 173215, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Silhari compares

By the 2011 count Silhari is among the largest villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 153 residents. Its 141 hectares work out to about 4.5 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, well below the tehsil average of 967.

Getting to Silhari

Silhari 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 Silhari 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 Silhari from other places

Silhari lies about 16 km from Solan, and the nearest railway station is Kathleeghat, about 4.2 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 Silhari

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

• Badiaola under 2 km
• Tikar under 2 km
• Dharin under 2 km
• Jekhri 1.5 km
• Kadaur 1.5 km
• Dhandon 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.