About Gohal Village

Gohal is a large village in Jainagar tehsil, in the district of Kodarma, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 2,415, made up of 1,270 males and 1,145 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 902 females per 1000 males. The village covers 421 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 825301, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Gohal compares

By the 2011 count Gohal is the 11th largest of the 111 villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 1,175 residents. Its 421 hectares work out to about 5.7 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, a little below the tehsil average of 940.

Getting to Gohal

Gohal 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 Gohal 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. The nearest villages by name are Gariai, Ghanghri, Ghoraunja and Ghurmunda. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

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.