This page explains exactly how every ranking on this site is put in order, what got thrown out and why. It matters because a ranking is only as honest as its method, and most Dholera lists never show you one.
The short version
Every list is sorted on a real column of a real published dataset, named on the page. Rankings that put the villages in nearly the same order were merged rather than shipped twice. Columns where all 72 villages tie were rejected outright. Blanks print as UNKNOWN. Nothing is scored, weighted or invented.
The one rule everything else follows
A ranking is only worth reading if the thing it sorts on is real. So every list on this site is sorted on an actual column of an actual published dataset, and the page names the column, quotes its heading from the source file, and links to where you can download the file yourself.
We do not score. There is no dholeraSTOP index, no weighted composite and no proprietary rating, because those are all ways of hiding a judgement inside a number.
Why there are not more of these pages
Two rules cut the count down, and both of them cost us pages we would rather have published.
Near duplicate rankings get collapsed. Before publishing, every candidate ranking was compared with every other using Spearman rank correlation, which measures whether two columns put the same things in the same order. Any pair scoring 0.85 or above was merged into one page with two columns instead of being shipped as two pages. Population and household count came in at 0.981, so they share a page. Net sown area and unirrigated area came in at 0.988, with 45 of 71 villages recording the identical figure for both, so they share a page too. Non agricultural area and its share of the village came in at 0.911. Each of those merges cost a page and saved you a page that would have said the same thing twice.
Columns where everything ties get rejected. If all 72 villages answer a question the same way, that column cannot rank anything. Every village here recorded a pucca road, mobile coverage, daily newspaper supply and power for domestic use. None recorded treated tap water, a national highway, a ferry or a private bus. Those are printed as flat sentences on the relevant page and never as a league table with 72 joint first places.
What we do when the source is silent
A blank cell prints as UNKNOWN. It never prints as a zero, an estimate or a dash, because a reader cannot tell the difference between a real zero and a missing value once it has been rounded into a table.
Where a village records zero for something, it is listed by name under the table rather than ranked last, so the ranking never implies an order that the data does not support.
What is derived and what is read
Some figures are read straight off the source: population, area, distance, rate. Some are computed by us: density, household size, sex ratio, Scheduled Caste share, the medians and the spreads. Every computed figure is labelled as computed, and both of the numbers that went into it are printed on the same row so you can repeat the arithmetic.
Status labels
Everything on this site carries one of five labels. OFFICIAL means it was read off a government source or computed from one. REPORTED means a named non government publisher said it, and the page names the publisher. PARTIAL means some rows are confirmed and some are blank. TARGET means an announced future date or number, which is never a fact. UNKNOWN means not established.
A target never gets written as an achievement anywhere on this site. That is the single most common way Dholera coverage misleads people.
What we will not do
We will not publish a ranking of a dataset a sister site already publishes, because near duplicate sites on new domains get filtered out of search results and the reader gets nothing. Before any of these pages was built, every proposal was checked against 1,959 live URLs across 24 related domains, and the ones that overlapped were dropped rather than reworded.
That is why this site publishes the Census village directory and the villages outside the boundary, and does not publish another regulator project ranking, another company register ranking or another set of pages for the 22 villages inside the SIR. Those exist elsewhere and they are linked from the pages where they are relevant.
Sources
- Census of India 2011, Village Directory for Ahmadabad district, Gujarat, published by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India. censusindia.gov.in catalogue 405. Local extract: 72 village records, 396 columns, taken 4 August 2026. Status: OFFICIAL.
- Annual Statement of Rates, edition ASR-2011 Final, agricultural land, Ahmedabad district, issued by the Superintendent of Stamps, Gandhinagar, Gujarat State, in force from 18 April 2011. Published on garvi.gujarat.gov.in. Source document AHMEDABAD-AGRI.pdf, 1,431 pages, with Dhandhuka taluka on pages 445 to 629. Local extract: 2,764 rate rows across 69 villages, taken 4 August 2026. Status: OFFICIAL.
Every figure on this page was computed at build time from the extract named above, not typed in by hand. Where the source records nothing, the cell reads UNKNOWN rather than a guess. We do not sell land and nobody can pay to change a position in any list here.
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