About Silwar Village

Silwar is a small village in Lansdowne tehsil, in the district of Garhwal, Uttarakhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 373, made up of 173 males and 200 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,156 females per 1000 males. The village covers 147.56 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 246155, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Silwar Overview

Census 2011 figures for Silwar village
Description	Value
State	Uttarakhand
District	Garhwal
Tehsil	Lansdowne
Pincode	246155
Area (hectares)	147.56 hectares
Population	373
Male Population	173
Female Population	200
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	1,156
Bus Service (public)	Available within village
Bus Service (private)	Available within village
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Silwar compares

By the 2011 count Silwar is the 27th largest of the 465 villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 148 residents. Its 147.56 hectares work out to about 2.5 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, though that is well below the tehsil average of 1243.

Getting to Silwar

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

How far is Silwar from other places

Silwar lies about 15 km from Garhwal, and the nearest railway station is Kotdwara, about 23 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 Silwar
Tehsil headquarters	Lansdowne	12 km
District headquarters	Garhwal	15 km
Nearest railway station	Kotdwara	23 km
Nearest town	Kotdwāra	23 km

Villages closest to Silwar

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

As per the Census of India 2011, Silwar village had a population of 373. That makes it the 27th largest of the 465 villages in the tehsil, more than twice the local average for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 148 residents.

Silwar village has 173 males and 200 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Silwar has about 1156 females for every 1000 males. In short, women outnumber men here, though that is well below the tehsil average of 1243.

The pincode recorded for Silwar is 246155. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Silwar covers 147.56 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 2.5 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads.

Silwar falls under Lansdowne tehsil of Garhwal district in Uttarakhand.

The nearest railway station to Silwar is Kotdwara, about 23 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 village for Silwar.

Silwar is about 15 km from Garhwal in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Silwar is in Lansdowne tehsil of Garhwal district. Lansdowne is about 12 km away. Garhwal is about 15 km away. Kotdwara is about 23 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.