About Silphori Village

Silphori is a mid sized village in Chitrangi tehsil, in the district of Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,442, made up of 764 males and 678 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 887 females per 1000 males. The village covers 665.93 hectares hectares.

Silphori Overview

Census 2011 figures for Silphori village
Description	Value
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Singrauli
Tehsil	Chitrangi
Area (hectares)	665.93 hectares
Population	1,442
Male Population	764
Female Population	678
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	887
Bus Service (public)	Available within 10+ km distance
Bus Service (private)	Available within village
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Silphori compares

By the 2011 count Silphori is the 70th largest of the 277 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 1,096 residents. Its 665.93 hectares work out to about 2.2 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 939.

Getting to Silphori

Silphori is served by buses within the village, though the nearest railway station is further out. The census records public bus service for Silphori as Available within 10+ km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within 10+ km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Silphori from other places

Silphori lies about 15 km from Singrauli, and the nearest railway station is Mirchadhuri, about 3.6 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 Silphori
Nearest railway station	Mirchadhuri	3.6 km
District headquarters	Singrauli	15 km
Tehsil headquarters	Chitrangi	29 km

Villages closest to Silphori

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

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Common questions about Silphori

As per the Census of India 2011, Silphori village had a population of 1,442. That makes it the 70th largest of the 277 villages in the tehsil, a little above average for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 1,096 residents.

Silphori village has 764 males and 678 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Silphori has about 887 females for every 1000 males. In short, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 939.

Silphori covers 665.93 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 2.2 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads.

Silphori falls under Chitrangi tehsil of Singrauli district in Madhya Pradesh.

The nearest railway station to Silphori is Mirchadhuri, about 3.6 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available within 10+ km distance.

The census records public bus service as Available within 10+ km distance and private bus service as Available within village for Silphori.

Silphori is about 15 km from Singrauli in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Silphori is in Chitrangi tehsil of Singrauli district. Mirchadhuri is about 3.6 km away. Singrauli is about 15 km away. Chitrangi is about 29 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.