About Gurgain Village

Gurgain is a large village in Burmu tehsil, in the district of Ranchi, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 3,008, made up of 1,512 males and 1,496 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 989 females per 1000 males. The village covers 590.33 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 835214, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Gurgain compares

By the 2011 count Gurgain is the 5th largest of the 76 villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 1,179 residents. Its 590.33 hectares work out to about 5.1 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, much in line with the tehsil average of 976.

Getting to Gurgain

Gurgain 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 Gurgain as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. 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 Gurgain from other places

Gurgain lies about 24 km from Ranchi, and the nearest railway station is Itki, about 18 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 Gurgain

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

• Mohanpur under 2 km
• Ginjothakurgaon under 2 km
• Hisri under 2 km
• Dandiya 1.9 km
• Khakhra 2.3 km
• Ithe 2.5 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.