By population, Chikhale ranks #159 of 205 villages in Murbad mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chikhale is a village of 454 people in 97 households (Census 2011) in Murbad taluka, Thane district, Maharashtra, the 159th-largest of 205 villages in Murbad taluka. Literacy is 63%, 3 points below the taluka average of 66% and the sex ratio is 853 women per 1,000 men. It lies 132 km from the Thane district centre, 22 km from Nilaje, the nearest town, under 1 km from Chikhale railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 421403, served by Kinholi post office; the LGD village code is 553088. The nearest hospital or health centre is Shifa Hospital, 3 km away. The sarpanch is Malti dipik hard, and the village votes in Gangapur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bumb Prashant Bansilal. The population is estimated at 535 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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