About Barachiru Village

Barachiru is a mid sized village in Khuntpani tehsil, in the district of Pashchimi Singhbhum, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,122, made up of 554 males and 568 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,025 females per 1000 males. The village covers 350 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 833201, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Barachiru compares

By the 2011 count Barachiru is the 19th largest of the 114 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 723 residents. Its 350 hectares work out to about 3.2 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, much in line with the tehsil average of 1020.

Getting to Barachiru

Barachiru 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 Barachiru as Available within 5 - 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 Barachiru from other places

Barachiru lies about 21 km from Pashchimi Singhbhum, and the nearest railway station is Pandrasali, about 3.5 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 Barachiru

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

• Banamgutu under 2 km
• Sanchiru under 2 km
• Sangajata 1.5 km
• Horlor 2.1 km
• Khunta 2.3 km
• Gendmundi 2.6 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.