By population, Kerya ranks #1 of 61 villages in Thethaitangar mandal — the largest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kerya is a village of 5,731 people in 1,100 households (Census 2011) in Thethaitangar block, Simdega district, Jharkhand, the largest of 61 villages in Thethaitangar block. Literacy is 51%, 5 points below the block average, and the sex ratio is 997 women per 1,000 men. It lies 53 km from the Simdega district centre, 17 km from Tamar, the nearest town, 23 km from Barabambo railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 835226, served by Thethaitangar post office; the LGD village code is 376619. The nearest hospital or health centre is Kalyan Hospital, 9 km away. The sarpanch is chrisdhani lakra. The population is estimated at 6,757 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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