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By population, Benkanahalli ranks #78 of 158 villages in Hiriyur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Benkanahalli is a village of 1,114 people in 227 households (Census 2011) in Hiriyur taluk, Chitradurga district, Karnataka, the 78th-largest of 158 villages in Hiriyur taluk. Literacy is 52%, 12 points below the taluk average, and the sex ratio is 1,018 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 577596, served by Dharmapura post office; the LGD village code is 606120. The village votes in Hiriyur assembly constituency, represented by MLA D Sudakar. The population is estimated at 1,313 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Dharampura →
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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