About Kamarhatu Village

Kamarhatu is a mid sized village in Chaibasa tehsil, in the district of Pashchimi Singhbhum, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,742, made up of 861 males and 881 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,023 females per 1000 males. The village covers 220.96 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 833201, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Kamarhatu compares

By the 2011 count Kamarhatu is the 12th largest of the 74 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 1,167 residents. Its 220.96 hectares work out to about 7.9 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, though that is a little below the tehsil average of 1045.

Getting to Kamarhatu

Kamarhatu is reached by bus from a few kilometres away, with rail a longer trip. The census records public bus service for Kamarhatu as Available within 5 - 10 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 5 - 10 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Kamarhatu from other places

Kamarhatu lies about 17 km from Pashchimi Singhbhum, and the nearest railway station is Singhpokharia, about 3.2 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 Kamarhatu

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

• Purna Chuibasa under 2 km
• Nimdi under 2 km
• Salihatu under 2 km
• Tekrahatu 2.3 km
• Gitilpi 2.3 km
• Dumbisai 2.8 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.