About Kushma Village

Kushma is a mid sized village in Barjora tehsil, in the district of Bankura, West Bengal. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 817, made up of 426 males and 391 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 918 females per 1000 males. The village covers 296 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 722203, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Kushma compares

By the 2011 count Kushma is the 77th largest of the 177 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 976 residents. Its 296 hectares work out to about 2.8 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, a little below the tehsil average of 945.

Getting to Kushma

Kushma 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 Kushma 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. The nearest villages by name are Krishnabati, Krishnapur, Kuldiha and Kururiya. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

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.