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About Silawat Village

Silawat is a mid sized village in Rajnagar tehsil, in the district of Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,187, made up of 636 males and 551 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 866 females per 1000 males. The village covers 648.46 hectares hectares.

Silawat Overview

Census 2011 figures for Silawat village
Description Value
State Madhya Pradesh
District Chhatarpur
Tehsil Rajnagar
Area (hectares) 648.46 hectares
Population 1,187
Male Population 636
Female Population 551
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males) 866
Bus Service (public) Available within <5 km distance
Bus Service (private) Available within <5 km distance
Nearest Railway Station Available

How Silawat compares

By the 2011 count Silawat is the 73rd largest of the 132 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,638 residents. Its 648.46 hectares work out to about 1.8 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, a little below the tehsil average of 887.

Getting to Silawat

The census records public bus service for Silawat as Available within <5 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within <5 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Silawat from other places

Silawat lies about 20 km from Chhatarpur, and the nearest railway station is Basari, about 8.4 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.

Distances from Silawat
Nearest railway station Basari 8.4 km
District headquarters Chhatarpur 20 km
Tehsil headquarters Rajnagar 30 km

Villages closest to Silawat

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

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.

Common questions about Silawat

As per the Census of India 2011, Silawat village had a population of 1,187. That makes it the 73rd largest of the 132 villages in the tehsil, a little below average for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 1,638 residents.

Silawat village has 636 males and 551 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Silawat has about 866 females for every 1000 males. In short, the shortfall of women against men is wide, a little below the tehsil average of 887.

Silawat covers 648.46 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 1.8 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Silawat falls under Rajnagar tehsil of Chhatarpur district in Madhya Pradesh.

The nearest railway station to Silawat is Basari, about 8.4 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available.

The census records public bus service as Available within <5 km distance and private bus service as Available within <5 km distance for Silawat.

Silawat is about 20 km from Chhatarpur in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Silawat is in Rajnagar tehsil of Chhatarpur district. Basari is about 8.4 km away. Chhatarpur is about 20 km away. Rajnagar is about 30 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.

The closest recorded villages are Juwana (3.5 km), Badni (4.1 km) and Sandani (4.9 km).

No. It is the count from the Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. The population of Silawat today is likely to be higher.

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