About Joka Village

Joka is a mid sized village in Keredari tehsil, in the district of Hazaribagh, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,201, made up of 619 males and 582 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 940 females per 1000 males. The village covers 92 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 825321, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Joka compares

By the 2011 count Joka is the 25th largest of the 70 villages in the tehsil, which puts it close to average, where the typical village holds 1,284 residents. Its 92 hectares work out to about 13 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, a little below the tehsil average of 967.

Getting to Joka

Joka is reached by bus from a few kilometres away, with rail a longer trip. The census records public bus service for Joka as Available within <5 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within <5 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 Joka from other places

Joka lies about 29 km from Hazaribagh, and the nearest railway station is Katkamsandi, about 8.0 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 Joka

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

• Nawa Khap 18 km
• Loharsa 18 km
• Lohra 18 km
• Bakchoma 18 km
• Masuriya 20 km
• Lajidag 21 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.