About Hosur Village

Hosur is a small village in Haliyal tehsil, in the district of Uttara Kannada, Karnataka. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 491, made up of 241 males and 250 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,037 females per 1000 males. The village covers 411.53 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 581329, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Hosur compares

By the 2011 count Hosur is the 59th largest of the 108 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 834 residents. Its 411.53 hectares work out to about 1.2 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 940.

Getting to Hosur

Hosur 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 Hosur as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within <5 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 Hosur from other places

Hosur lies about 103 km from Uttara Kannada, and the nearest railway station is Dharwad, about 3.4 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 Hosur

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

• Jatgahosur under 2 km
• Siddapur 1.7 km
• Mugadkop 12 km
• Bogur 20 km
• Guledkop 20 km
• Mavinkop 24 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.