About Asafpur Village

Asafpur is a mid sized village in Mukerian tehsil, in the district of Hoshiarpur, Punjab. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 825, made up of 379 males and 446 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,177 females per 1000 males. The village covers 202 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 144227, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Asafpur compares

By the 2011 count Asafpur is the 114th largest of the 295 villages in the tehsil, which puts it close to average, where the typical village holds 908 residents. Its 202 hectares work out to about 4.1 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 995.

Getting to Asafpur

Asafpur 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 Asafpur as Available within <5 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 Asafpur from other places

Asafpur lies about 48 km from Hoshiarpur, and the nearest railway station is Ghaunspur, about 14 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 Asafpur

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

• Gagar under 2 km
• Kando Karora under 2 km
• Jugial under 2 km
• Sabar under 2 km
• Passi Karoro 1.7 km
• Narnaul 2.0 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.