By population, Sankarpur ranks #30 of 259 villages in Devipur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sankarpur is a village of 926 people in 187 households (Census 2011) in Devipur block, Deoghar district, Jharkhand, the 30th-largest of 259 villages in Devipur block. Literacy is 52%, 4 points above the block average of 48% and the sex ratio is 894 women per 1,000 men. It lies 114 km from the Deoghar district centre, 11 km from Sundarpur, the nearest town, 9 km from Lakshmipur Bhorang railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 814120, served by Ghormara post office; the LGD village code is 354421. The nearest hospital or health centre is Meharma Hospital, <1 km away. The sarpanch is SUBASH KUMAR YADAV, and the village votes in Jamtara assembly constituency, represented by MLA Irfan Ansari. The population is estimated at 1,092 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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