By population, Barawan ranks #6 of 88 villages in Sherghati mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Barawan is a village of 3,194 people in 514 households (Census 2011) in Sherghati block, Gaya district, Bihar, the 6th-largest of 88 villages in Sherghati block. Literacy is 61%, 14 points above the block average of 47% and the sex ratio is 917 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 824211, served by Sherghati post office; the LGD village code is 256273. The village votes in Sonbarsha assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ratnesh Sada. The population is estimated at 3,766 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Sri Ram Pur →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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