By population, Dhankhunia ranks #112 of 217 villages in Ranishwar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Dhankhunia is a village of 301 people in 57 households (Census 2011) in Ranishwar block, Dumka district, Jharkhand, the 112th-largest of 217 villages in Ranishwar block. Literacy is 62%, 11 points above the block average, and the sex ratio is 1,034 women per 1,000 men. It lies 156 km from the Dumka district centre, 25 km from Aguri Band Punisol, the nearest town, 24 km from Piardoba railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 814148, served by Raghunathpur (Dumka) post office; the LGD village code is 371199. The nearest hospital or health centre is Babuidanga Hospital, 11 km away. The sarpanch is ANIL MARANDI, and the village votes in Nala assembly constituency, represented by Rabindra Nath Mahato. The population is estimated at 1,564 in 2026, up 420% 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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