About Garh Padder Village

Garh Padder is a mid sized village in Atholi tehsil, in the district of Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,011, made up of 540 males and 471 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 872 females per 1000 males. The village covers 1758.4 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 182204, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Garh Padder Overview

Census 2011 figures for Garh Padder village
Description	Value
State	Jammu and Kashmir
District	Kishtwar
Tehsil	Atholi
Pincode	182204
Area (hectares)	1758.4 hectares
Population	1,011
Male Population	540
Female Population	471
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	872
Bus Service (public)	Available within 10+ km distance
Bus Service (private)	Available within 10+ km distance
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Garh Padder compares

By the 2011 count Garh Padder is the 8th largest of the 32 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 673 residents. Its 1758.4 hectares work out to about 0.6 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 924.

Getting to Garh Padder

Garh Padder is fairly remote, with both bus and rail more than ten kilometres away. The census records public bus service for Garh Padder as Available within 10+ km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 10+ km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within 10+ km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Garh Padder from other places

Garh Padder lies about 40 km from Kishtwar, and the nearest railway station is Banihal, about 95 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.

Distances from Garh Padder
Tehsil headquarters	Atholi	6.2 km
District headquarters	Kishtwar	40 km
Nearest town	Kishtwār	40 km
Nearest railway station	Banihal	95 km

Villages closest to Garh Padder

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

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.

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Common questions about Garh Padder

As per the Census of India 2011, Garh Padder village had a population of 1,011. That makes it the 8th largest of the 32 villages in the tehsil, well above average for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 673 residents.

Garh Padder village has 540 males and 471 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Garh Padder has about 872 females for every 1000 males. In short, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 924.

The pincode recorded for Garh Padder is 182204. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Garh Padder covers 1758.4 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 0.6 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Garh Padder falls under Atholi tehsil of Kishtwar district in Jammu and Kashmir.

The nearest railway station to Garh Padder is Banihal, about 95 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available within 10+ km distance.

The census records public bus service as Available within 10+ km distance and private bus service as Available within 10+ km distance for Garh Padder.

Garh Padder is about 40 km from Kishtwar in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Garh Padder is in Atholi tehsil of Kishtwar district. Atholi is about 6.2 km away. Kishtwar is about 40 km away. Kishtwār is about 40 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.