By population, Gerua ranks #58 of 176 villages in Pratappur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Gerua is a village of 735 people in 135 households (Census 2011) in Pratappur block, Chatra district, Jharkhand, the 58th-largest of 176 villages in Pratappur block. Literacy is 53%, 11 points above the block average of 43% and the sex ratio is 904 women per 1,000 men. It lies 135 km from the Chatra district centre, 50 km from Ghatiali, the nearest town, 11 km from Salgajhari railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 825404, served by Pratappur (Chatra) post office; the LGD village code is 348441. The nearest hospital or health centre is Ganga Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, 4 km away. The sarpanch is lalita devi, and the village votes in Barkatha assembly constituency, represented by MLA Amit Kumar Yadav. The population is estimated at 867 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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