By population, Jarka ranks #21 of 214 villages in Sona Rai Tharhi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Jarka is a village of 740 people in 132 households (Census 2011) in Sona Rai Tharhi block, Deoghar district, Jharkhand, the 21st-largest of 214 villages in Sona Rai Tharhi block. Literacy is 56%, 10 points above the block average, and the sex ratio is 888 women per 1,000 men. It lies 12 km from the Deoghar district centre, 48 km from Barra, the nearest town, 24 km from Joramow Railway Station railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 814150, served by Sarwan post office; the LGD village code is 354057. The nearest hospital or health centre is B.N. Hospital, 9 km away. The sarpanch is SUMIT KUMAR MANDAL, and the village votes in Sarath assembly constituency, represented by Uday Shankar Singh. The population is estimated at 872 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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