About Rajwal Village

Rajwal is a large village in Mukerian tehsil, in the district of Hoshiarpur, Punjab. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 3,838, made up of 1,924 males and 1,914 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 995 females per 1000 males. The village covers 813 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 144216, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Rajwal compares

By the 2011 count Rajwal is among the largest villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 908 residents. Its 813 hectares work out to about 4.7 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, much in line with the tehsil average of 995.

Getting to Rajwal

Rajwal 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 Rajwal 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 village. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Rajwal from other places

Rajwal lies about 42 km from Hoshiarpur, and the nearest railway station is Kartoli Punjab, about 8.6 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.

Villages closest to Rajwal

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

• Bhambotar under 2 km
• Dhar under 2 km
• Tohlu 1.7 km
• Palli 2.0 km
• Dugral 2.7 km
• Talwara 3.7 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.