About Saroa Village

Saroa is a small village in Mukerian tehsil, in the district of Hoshiarpur, Punjab. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 253, made up of 128 males and 125 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 977 females per 1000 males. The village covers 44 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 144214, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Saroa compares

By the 2011 count Saroa is the 268th largest of the 295 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 908 residents. Its 44 hectares work out to about 5.8 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, though that is a little below the tehsil average of 995.

Getting to Saroa

Saroa 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 Saroa 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 Saroa from other places

Saroa lies about 55 km from Hoshiarpur, and the nearest railway station is Musahibpur, about 7.0 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 Saroa

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

• Saroya under 2 km
• Jiwanwal under 2 km
• Arthewal under 2 km
• Bariana under 2 km
• Dewal under 2 km
• Liddar under 2 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.