About Hejjil Village

Hejjil is a small village in Bhatkal tehsil, in the district of Uttara Kannada, Karnataka. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 163, made up of 73 males and 90 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,233 females per 1000 males. The village covers 254.72 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 581320, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Hejjil compares

By the 2011 count Hejjil is the 45th largest of the 59 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 1,896 residents. Its 254.72 hectares work out to about 0.6 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1005.

Getting to Hejjil

Hejjil 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 Hejjil 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 village. The nearest villages by name are Hadlur, Hallari, Hallyani and Hasarvalli. 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.