About Silaar Village

Silaar is a small village in Poornagiri tehsil, in the district of Champawat, Uttarakhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 283, made up of 154 males and 129 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 838 females per 1000 males. The village covers 155.19 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 262523, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Silaar Overview

Census 2011 figures for Silaar village
Description	Value
State	Uttarakhand
District	Champawat
Tehsil	Poornagiri
Pincode	262523
Area (hectares)	155.19 hectares
Population	283
Male Population	154
Female Population	129
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	838
Bus Service (public)	Available within village
Bus Service (private)	Available within 10+ km distance
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Silaar compares

By the 2011 count Silaar is the 37th largest of the 67 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 707 residents. Its 155.19 hectares work out to about 1.8 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 945.

Getting to Silaar

Silaar is served by buses within the village, though the nearest railway station is further out. The census records public bus service for Silaar as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 10+ km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within 10+ km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Silaar from other places

Silaar lies about 28 km from Champawat, and the nearest railway station is Kathgodam, about 41 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.

Distances from Silaar
Nearest town	Almora	22 km
Tehsil headquarters	Poornagiri	28 km
District headquarters	Champawat	28 km
Nearest railway station	Kathgodam	41 km

Villages closest to Silaar

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

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.

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Common questions about Silaar

As per the Census of India 2011, Silaar village had a population of 283. That makes it the 37th largest of the 67 villages in the tehsil, well below average for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 707 residents.

Silaar village has 154 males and 129 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Silaar has about 838 females for every 1000 males. In short, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 945.

The pincode recorded for Silaar is 262523. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Silaar covers 155.19 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 1.8 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Silaar falls under Poornagiri tehsil of Champawat district in Uttarakhand.

The nearest railway station to Silaar is Kathgodam, about 41 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available within 10+ km distance.

The census records public bus service as Available within village and private bus service as Available within 10+ km distance for Silaar.

Silaar is about 28 km from Champawat in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Silaar is in Poornagiri tehsil of Champawat district. Almora is about 22 km away. Poornagiri is about 28 km away. Champawat is about 28 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.