About Katt Village

Katt is a mid sized village in Nawanshahr tehsil, in the district of Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar, Punjab. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,029, made up of 530 males and 499 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 942 females per 1000 males. The village covers 201 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 144504, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Katt compares

By the 2011 count Katt is the 135th largest of the 272 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,187 residents. Its 201 hectares work out to about 5.1 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, a little below the tehsil average of 975.

Getting to Katt

Katt 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 Katt 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 Katt from other places

Katt lies about 16 km from Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar, and the nearest railway station is Bahram, about 1.7 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 Katt

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

• Chak Bilgan under 2 km
• Talwandi Jattan under 2 km
• Chak Ramun under 2 km
• Dhandhua 1.6 km
• Nurpur 2.3 km
• Mallah Sodhian 2.5 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.