About Peraje Village

Peraje is a large village in Bantval tehsil, in the district of Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 2,942, made up of 1,460 males and 1,482 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,015 females per 1000 males. The village covers 517.72 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 574253, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Peraje compares

By the 2011 count Peraje is the 44th largest of the 72 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 3,882 residents. Its 517.72 hectares work out to about 5.7 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 Peraje

Peraje 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 Peraje as Available within village. 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 Peraje from other places

Peraje lies about 11 km from Dakshina Kannada, and the nearest railway station is Neralakatte, about 2.5 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 Peraje

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

• Mani 2.4 km
• Netlamudnur 2.7 km
• Kedila 2.9 km
• Barimar 3.0 km
• Kadeshwalya 3.0 km
• Maninalkur 4.2 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.