About Durikuri Village

Durikuri is a mid sized village in Jaipur tehsil, in the district of Puruliya, West Bengal. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,533, made up of 762 males and 771 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,012 females per 1000 males. The village covers 214.9 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 723215, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Durikuri compares

By the 2011 count Durikuri is the 27th largest of the 106 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 1,136 residents. Its 214.9 hectares work out to about 7.1 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 941.

Getting to Durikuri

Durikuri 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 Durikuri as Available within 10+ km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within village. The nearest villages by name are Dhabani, Dhumadi, Dimdiha and Dumardih. 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.