By population, Devipur ranks #10 of 108 villages in Markacho mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Devipur is a village of 1,881 people in 306 households (Census 2011) in Markacho block, Koderma district, Jharkhand, the 10th-largest of 108 villages in Markacho block. Literacy is 57%, 5 points above the block average, and the sex ratio is 986 women per 1,000 men. It lies 55 km from the Koderma district centre, 25 km from Chakai, the nearest town, 7 km from Sankarpur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 825318, served by Markacho post office; the LGD village code is 350108. The nearest hospital or health centre is PHC, Burhai, 7 km away. The sarpanch is BEDU SAW, and the village votes in Gandey assembly constituency, represented by Kalpana Murmu Soren. The population is estimated at 1,140 in 2026, down 39% 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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