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Sep
Krishna Janmashtami
stateBirth of Lord Krishna; celebrated with night-long pujas and dahi-handi.
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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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- LGD code
- 50302
- Pincode
- 262530
- Population
- 662
- Households
- 163
- Literacy rate
- 75.8%
- Sex ratio
- 959 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 179
Census 2011 · in context
How Balakot compares
By population, Balakot ranks #40 of 346 villages in Pithoragarh mandal.
Literacy rate
%
75.8%
+2.5% vs mandal average
- Balakot
- 75.8%
- Pithoragarh mandal
- 73.3%
- Pithoragarh district
- 71.5%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
959
−63 vs mandal average
- Balakot
- 959
- Pithoragarh mandal
- 1,022
Household size
people per home
4.1
−0.1 vs mandal average
- Balakot
- 4.1
- Pithoragarh mandal
- 4.2
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Key facts — Balakot
- LGD code
- 50302
- Pincode
- 262530
- Population (Census 2011)
- 662
- Population (projected 2026)
- 780
- Households
- 163
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 959
- Literacy rate
- 75.8%
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Almora
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Bageshwar
- Member of Parliament
- Ajay Tamta
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Chandan Ram Dass
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Pooja
- Block / Mandal
- Pithoragarh
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