By population, Sonkhed ranks #3 of 126 villages in Loha mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sonkhed is a village of 5,995 people in 1,100 households (Census 2011) in Loha taluka, Nanded district, Maharashtra, the 3rd-largest of 126 villages in Loha taluka. Literacy is 68%, 5 points above the taluka average, and the sex ratio is 928 women per 1,000 men. It lies 166 km from the Nanded district centre, 31 km from Nashirabad, the nearest town, 15 km from Gandhi Smrak Road railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 431708, served by Loha post office; the LGD village code is 545198. The nearest hospital or health centre is Hospital, Parad, 11 km away. The village votes in Gangakhed assembly constituency, represented by MLA Gutte Ratnakar Manikrao. The population is estimated at 7,068 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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