By population, Balia ranks #89 of 114 villages in Goilkera mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Balia is a village of 337 people in 64 households (Census 2011) in Goilkera block, West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand, the 89th-largest of 114 villages in Goilkera block. Literacy is 15%, 23 points below the block average of 37% and the sex ratio is 1,080 women per 1,000 men. It lies 261 km from the West Singhbhum district centre, 18 km from Milki, the nearest town, 25 km from Ekchari railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 833103, served by Goilkera post office; the LGD village code is 377618. The nearest hospital or health centre is Arya Nursing Home, <1 km away. The sarpanch is Uday Cherowa, and the village votes in Nirsa assembly constituency, represented by MLA Arup Chatterjee. The population is estimated at 397 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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