About Mallah Sodhian Village

Mallah Sodhian 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 1,078, made up of 554 males and 524 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 946 females per 1000 males. The village covers 139 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 144505, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Mallah Sodhian compares

By the 2011 count Mallah Sodhian is the 126th largest of the 272 villages in the tehsil, which puts it close to average, where the typical village holds 1,187 residents. Its 139 hectares work out to about 7.8 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, a little below the tehsil average of 975.

Getting to Mallah Sodhian

Mallah Sodhian 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 Mallah Sodhian 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 Mallah Sodhian from other places

Mallah Sodhian lies about 16 km from Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar, and the nearest railway station is Bahram, about 1.8 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 Mallah Sodhian

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

• Lalpur under 2 km
• Bisla under 2 km
• Jhander Khurd under 2 km
• Dhandhua 1.5 km
• Jhander Kalan 1.6 km
• Dhahan 1.8 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.