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Hamidpur is a village in Simri Bakhtiarpur mandal, Saharsa district, Bihar. It has a population of 4,620 across 873 households with a literacy rate of 40%. The village is located at coordinates 24.900°N, 87.962°E with PIN code 852127.
By population, Hamidpur ranks #19 of 60 villages in Simri Bakhtiarpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Hamidpur is a village of 4,620 people in 873 households (Census 2011) in Simri Bakhtiarpur block, Saharsa district, Bihar, the 19th-largest of 60 villages in Simri Bakhtiarpur block. Literacy is 40%, 2 points above the block average of 39% and the sex ratio is 884 women per 1,000 men. It lies 185 km from the Saharsa district centre, 7 km from Baishnabnagar, the nearest town, 7 km from Khaltipur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 852127, served by Simri Bakhtiarpur post office; the LGD village code is 226641. The nearest hospital or health centre is Kaliachak Nursing Home, 7 km away. The sarpanch is SAJAN KUMAR, and the village votes in Khagaria assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bablu Kumar. The population is estimated at 10,257 in 2026, up 122% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bhatauni →
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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