About Rajpur Village

Rajpur is a small village in Mukerian tehsil, in the district of Hoshiarpur, Punjab. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 349, made up of 173 males and 176 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,017 females per 1000 males. The village covers 123 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 144214, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Rajpur compares

By the 2011 count Rajpur is the 241st largest of the 295 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 908 residents. Its 123 hectares work out to about 2.8 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, a little above the tehsil average of 995.

Getting to Rajpur

Rajpur 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 Rajpur 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 Rajpur from other places

Rajpur lies about 42 km from Hoshiarpur, and the nearest railway station is Garna Sahib, about 7.7 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 Rajpur

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

• Bhatehar 4.2 km
• Bhati Shakar Kaur 4.2 km
• Kallowal 6.4 km
• Chak Sheru 7.7 km
• Gawal Chak Jassu 7.7 km
• Gawal Chak Shangaru 7.7 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.