About Hirachak Village

Hirachak is a mid sized village in Dudhi tehsil, in the district of Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,162, made up of 621 males and 541 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 871 females per 1000 males. The village covers 301.13 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 231208, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Hirachak compares

By the 2011 count Hirachak is the 134th largest of the 273 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,753 residents. Its 301.13 hectares work out to about 3.9 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 943.

Getting to Hirachak

Hirachak 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 Hirachak 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 Hirachak from other places

Hirachak lies about 56 km from Sonbhadra, and the nearest railway station is Mahuariya, about 2.5 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 Hirachak

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

• Patariha under 2 km
• Mahuli under 2 km
• Majhouli under 2 km
• Dumara 2.2 km
• Chak Korgi 2.3 km
• Koragi 2.3 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.