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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Khwir is a small village in Pauri mandal, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand. It has a population of 55 distributed across 18 households with a literacy rate of 69.1%.
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- LGD code
- 46016
- Pincode
- 246176
- Post office
- Toli
- Population
- 55
- Households
- 18
- Literacy rate
- 69.1%
- Sex ratio
- 1619 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 20
- Distance to district centre
- 22 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 4 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 80 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 232 km
- Nearest railway station
- Kotdwara · 53 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Pabau Government Hospital · 5 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Khwir compares
By population, Khwir ranks #504 of 842 villages in Pauri mandal.
Literacy rate
%
69.1%
−0.6% vs mandal average
- Khwir
- 69.1%
- Pauri mandal
- 69.7%
- Pauri Garhwal district
- 72.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,619
+433 vs mandal average
- Khwir
- 1,619
- Pauri mandal
- 1,186
Household size
people per home
3.1
−0.8 vs mandal average
- Khwir
- 3.1
- Pauri mandal
- 3.9
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Khwir at a glance
Khwir is a village of 55 people in 18 households (Census 2011) in Pauri tehsil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 504th-largest of 842 villages in Pauri tehsil. Literacy is 69%, about the same as the tehsil average of 70% and the sex ratio is 1,619 women per 1,000 men. It lies 22 km from the Pauri Garhwal district centre, 10 km from Kulheri, the nearest town, 53 km from Kotdwara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246176, served by Toli post office; the LGD village code is 46016. The nearest hospital or health centre is Pabau Government Hospital, 5 km away. The village votes in Pauri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rajkumar Pori. The population is estimated at 65 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Khwir
- LGD code
- 46016
- Pincode
- 246176
- Post office
- Toli
- Population (Census 2011)
- 55
- Population (projected 2026)
- 65
- Households
- 18
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1619
- Literacy rate
- 69.1%
- Coordinates
- 30.13757°N, 78.84366°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 Khwir
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun80 kmcapital
- Delhi232 km
- Kolkata1267 km
- Mumbai1369 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationKotdwara53 km
- Bus stopDevprayag24 km
- Hospital / PHCPabau Government Hospital5 km
- ATM / bankPolytechnic SBI ATM12 km
- Petrol pumpBharat Petroleum10 km
- CollegeCHAURAS GROUND10 km
- Police stationRudraprayag Police Station21 km
Same pincode
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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)