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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Khon is a village in Pauri mandal, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, located at 30.267°N, 78.543°E. With a population of 169 across 53 households, it has a literacy rate of 59.8%.
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- LGD code
- 45766
- Pincode
- 246173
- Post office
- Silogi
- Population
- 169
- Households
- 53
- Literacy rate
- 59.8%
- Sex ratio
- 1380 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 72
- Distance to district centre
- 50 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 31 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 49 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 225 km
- Nearest railway station
- Rishikesh · 30 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, Nakot · 9 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Khon compares
By population, Khon ranks #215 of 842 villages in Pauri mandal.
Literacy rate
%
59.8%
−9.9% vs mandal average
- Khon
- 59.8%
- Pauri mandal
- 69.7%
- Pauri Garhwal district
- 72.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,380
+194 vs mandal average
- Khon
- 1,380
- Pauri mandal
- 1,186
Household size
people per home
3.2
−0.7 vs mandal average
- Khon
- 3.2
- Pauri mandal
- 3.9
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Khon at a glance
Khon is a village of 169 people in 53 households (Census 2011) in Pauri tehsil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 215th-largest of 842 villages in Pauri tehsil. Literacy is 60%, 10 points below the tehsil average of 70% and the sex ratio is 1,380 women per 1,000 men. It lies 50 km from the Pauri Garhwal district centre, 34 km from Kulheri, the nearest town, 30 km from Rishikesh railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246173, served by Silogi post office; the LGD village code is 45766. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Nakot, 9 km away. The village votes in Pauri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rajkumar Pori. The population is estimated at 199 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Khon
- LGD code
- 45766
- Pincode
- 246173
- Post office
- Silogi
- Population (Census 2011)
- 169
- Population (projected 2026)
- 199
- Households
- 53
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1380
- Literacy rate
- 59.8%
- Coordinates
- 30.26747°N, 78.54279°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Garhwal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Pauri
- Member of Parliament
- Anil Baluni
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Rajkumar Pori
- Block / Mandal
- Pauri
Getting there
How to reach Khon
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun49 kmcapital
- Delhi225 km
- Kolkata1298 km
- Mumbai1369 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationRishikesh30 km
- Bus stopDevprayag14 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, Nakot9 km
- ATM / banksbi14 km
- Petrol pumphp14 km
- CollegeHNGU BA GROUND BIRLA CAMPUS24 km
- Police stationCheckpoint13 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Khon
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
- 🛕koteshwarTemple2.5 km ↗
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)