About Jhikpur Village

Jhikpur is a mid sized village in Mandar tehsil, in the district of Ranchi, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 732, made up of 382 males and 350 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 916 females per 1000 males. The village covers 127 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 835214, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Jhikpur compares

By the 2011 count Jhikpur is the 58th largest of the 69 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 1,864 residents. Its 127 hectares work out to about 5.8 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, well below the tehsil average of 973.

Getting to Jhikpur

Jhikpur is a little way from the nearest bus route, and further still from the railway. The census records public bus service for Jhikpur as Available within 10+ km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 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 Jhikpur from other places

Jhikpur lies about 34 km from Ranchi, and the nearest railway station is Narkopi, about 3.8 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 Jhikpur

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

• Charnalo under 2 km
• Dumri under 2 km
• Sarwa under 2 km
• Charki under 2 km
• Kurkura under 2 km
• Mandro 1.7 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.