About Silkhera Village

Silkhera is a small village in Dhoomakot tehsil, in the district of Garhwal, Uttarakhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 24, made up of 10 males and 14 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,400 females per 1000 males. The village covers 39.85 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 246161, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Silkhera Overview

Census 2011 figures for Silkhera village
Description	Value
State	Uttarakhand
District	Garhwal
Tehsil	Dhoomakot
Pincode	246161
Area (hectares)	39.85 hectares
Population	24
Male Population	10
Female Population	14
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	1,400
Bus Service (public)	Available within 5 - 10 km distance
Bus Service (private)	Available within 5 - 10 km distance
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Silkhera compares

By the 2011 count Silkhera is the 292nd largest of the 329 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 119 residents. Its 39.85 hectares work out to about 0.6 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1280.

Getting to Silkhera

Silkhera is a little way from the nearest bus route, and further still from the railway. The census records public bus service for Silkhera as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 5 - 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 Silkhera from other places

Silkhera lies about 16 km from Garhwal, and the nearest railway station is Kotdwara, about 22 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 Silkhera
Tehsil headquarters	Dhoomakot	16 km
District headquarters	Garhwal	16 km
Nearest town	Kotdwāra	22 km
Nearest railway station	Kotdwara	22 km

Villages closest to Silkhera

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Dhoomakot 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 Silkhera

As per the Census of India 2011, Silkhera village had a population of 24. That makes it the 292nd largest of the 329 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 119 residents.

Silkhera village has 10 males and 14 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Silkhera has about 1400 females for every 1000 males. In short, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1280.

The pincode recorded for Silkhera is 246161. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Silkhera covers 39.85 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 0.6 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Silkhera falls under Dhoomakot tehsil of Garhwal district in Uttarakhand.

The nearest railway station to Silkhera is Kotdwara, about 22 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 5 - 10 km distance and private bus service as Available within 5 - 10 km distance for Silkhera.

Silkhera is about 16 km from Garhwal in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Silkhera is in Dhoomakot tehsil of Garhwal district. Dhoomakot is about 16 km away. Garhwal is about 16 km away. Kotdwāra is about 22 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.