About Dhanauni Village

Dhanauni 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 955, made up of 521 males and 434 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 833 females per 1000 males. The village covers 126 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 140507, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Dhanauni compares

By the 2011 count Dhanauni is the 75th largest of the 136 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,198 residents. Its 126 hectares work out to about 7.6 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, a little below the tehsil average of 866.

Getting to Dhanauni

Dhanauni 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 Dhanauni 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 Dhanauni from other places

Dhanauni lies about 14 km from Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, and the nearest railway station is Ghagghar, about 3.8 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 Dhanauni

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

• Jagadhri under 2 km
• Isapur under 2 km
• Fatehpur under 2 km
• Fatehpur Jattan under 2 km
• Paragpur 1.6 km
• Karkaur 2.2 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.