About Forest Block Village

Forest Block is a large village in Musabani tehsil, in the district of Purbi Singhbhum, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 2,665, made up of 1,304 males and 1,361 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,044 females per 1000 males. The village covers 5047 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 831002, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Forest Block compares

By the 2011 count Forest Block is the 4th largest of the 43 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 1,337 residents. Its 5047 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, a little above the tehsil average of 1023.

Getting to Forest Block

Forest Block is a little way from the nearest bus route, and further still from the railway. The census records public bus service for Forest Block as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within 10+ km distance. The nearest villages by name are Bhuiyaboro, Bikrampur Alias Mainjhariya, Chakuliya and Chapri. 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.