About Hannikere Village

Hannikere is a large village in Chitapur tehsil, in the district of Gulbarga, Karnataka. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 2,639, made up of 1,357 males and 1,282 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 945 females per 1000 males. The village covers 1627.04 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 585225, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Hannikere compares

By the 2011 count Hannikere is the 30th largest of the 117 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 2,247 residents. Its 1627.04 hectares work out to about 1.6 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, well below the tehsil average of 1001.

Getting to Hannikere

Hannikere 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 Hannikere 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 Hannikere from other places

Hannikere lies about 45 km from Gulbarga, and the nearest railway station is Nalwar, about 8.3 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 Hannikere

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

• Kardal 3.4 km
• Devapur 3.6 km
• Bammanhalli 3.6 km
• Ladlapur 3.7 km
• Alhalli 3.9 km
• Alura 4.4 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.