About Gariai Village

Gariai is a small village in Jainagar tehsil, in the district of Kodarma, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 122, made up of 59 males and 63 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,068 females per 1000 males. The village covers 241 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 825324, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Gariai compares

By the 2011 count Gariai is the 105th largest of the 111 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 1,175 residents. Its 241 hectares work out to about 0.5 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 940.

Getting to Gariai

Gariai 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 Gariai as Available within 10+ km distance. 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 Gariai from other places

Gariai lies about 118 km from Kodarma, and the nearest railway station is Namkon, about 4.0 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 Gariai

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

• Behradih 2.9 km
• Chutiaro 4.7 km
• Gargi 12 km
• Dahuatola 13 km
• Chadra 14 km
• Baghmara 17 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.