By population, Poonkhar ranks #13 of 78 villages in Malakhera mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Poonkhar is a village of 3,427 people in 574 households (Census 2011) in Malakhera tehsil, Alwar district, Rajasthan, the 13th-largest of 78 villages in Malakhera tehsil. Literacy is 55%, 1 points above the tehsil average, and the sex ratio is 935 women per 1,000 men. It lies 6 km from the Alwar district centre, 20 km from Baswa, the nearest town, 3 km from Dhigawara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 301406, served by Malakhera post office; the LGD village code is 72872. The nearest hospital or health centre is Ashok Hospital, 8 km away. The population is estimated at 4,040 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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