About Dafarpur Village

Dafarpur is a mid sized village in Dera Bassi tehsil, in the district of Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,943, made up of 1,047 males and 896 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 856 females per 1000 males. The village covers 101 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 140201, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Dafarpur compares

By the 2011 count Dafarpur is the 22nd largest of the 136 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 1,198 residents. Its 101 hectares work out to about 19 people per hectare, densely settled for a rural area. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, much in line with the tehsil average of 866.

Getting to Dafarpur

Dafarpur 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 Dafarpur as Available within village. 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 Dafarpur from other places

Dafarpur lies about 16 km from Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, and the nearest railway station is Ghagghar, about 5.0 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 Dafarpur

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

• Kakrali under 2 km
• Morthikari under 2 km
• Kishanpura 2.6 km
• Pandwala 2.9 km
• Sundran 3.2 km
• Mothanwali 3.2 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.