This page tells you how many people actually lived in each village around Dholera when the last census counted them, largest first. It matters because the word village covers everything here from a settlement of 6,339 people to a hamlet of 122, and a brochure never tells you which one it is talking about.

The short version

Hebatpur is the largest village in this set with 6,339 people in 2011, followed by Bajarda with 4,488 and Adval with 3,455. The smallest, Kadipur, held 122. Population and household count rank almost identically, so both sit on this one page rather than being split into two near duplicate lists.

What this ranking is

This is the last time anybody counted these villages one by one and published the answer. The Census of India sent enumerators to every village in the country in 2011 and asked the same questions everywhere, which is what makes the answers comparable. The amenity questions were asked in 2009. That is old, and we say so on every figure, but it is the only complete, uniform and free record of what was on the ground before the industrial city arrived. If you want to understand what Dholera SIR was built on top of, this is the baseline.

None of this describes 2026. Roads have been built, land has changed hands and the expressway has opened since the surveyors came. Read it as the starting line, not the current score.

Which villages are in it. The 69 villages of Dhandhuka taluka, sub-district code 03787, plus the three Barwala taluka villages that appear on the Dholera development authority's own 22 village boundary map. Seventy two villages in all. Census 2011 has no Dholera taluka because Dholera taluka was only created in 2015, so the villages sit under the taluka names the Census used at the time.

What the numbers say

Population is the first thing to check because it silently sets everything else. A village of five thousand people has a school, a bank branch and a bus that turns up. A village of two hundred has a bus stop and a walk. The three largest here, Hebatpur, Bajarda and Adval, are ordinary Gujarati market villages. Most of the rest are small.

The highest figure is 6,339 people and the lowest is 122 people. The middle village of the ranking sits at 1,355 people.

The full ranking, all 72 villages

Village population for 72 of the 72 villages in and around Dholera SIR. Source column, quoted from the Census file: Total Population of Village. Source: Census of India 2011. Status: OFFICIAL.
#VillagePeople (2011)HouseholdsPeople per householdBoundary
1Hebatpur6,3391,0026.33In the SIR
2Bajarda4,4889104.93Outside
3Adval3,4556285.50Outside
4Sodhi3,3655895.71In the SIR
5Galsana3,2905945.54Outside
6Padana3,2595196.28Outside
7Rojka3,2575655.76Outside
8Bavliyari3,0105535.44In the SIR
9Akru3,0094976.05Outside
10Kotda2,9814956.02Outside
11Fedra2,9475045.85Outside
12Chandarva2,9035365.42Outside
13Chhasiyana2,8054286.55Outside
14Dholera2,7795764.82In the SIR
15Gamph2,5594585.59Outside
16Mingalpur2,4854185.94In the SIR
17Pachchham2,4475224.69Outside
18Tagadi2,3523876.08Outside
19Bhangadh2,3303626.44In the SIR
20Vasana2,2764535.02Outside
21Gunjar2,2164295.17Outside
22Mota Tradiya2,1983895.65Outside
23Ambli2,1974055.42In the SIR
24Vagad2,1614055.34Outside
25Bhadiyad1,8984434.28In the SIR
26Unchdi1,8763185.90Outside
27Jaliya1,8043125.78Outside
28Zanzarka1,7913085.81Outside
29Gorasu1,7883724.81In the SIR
30Khadol1,6923105.46Outside
31Rayka1,6762835.92Outside
32Otariya1,6172985.43In the SIR
33Kamatalav1,5672765.68Outside
34Pipli1,5373094.97Outside
35Shela1,5152565.92Outside
36Kharad1,3952824.95Outside
37Rahtalav1,3152146.14In the SIR
38Valinda1,3042225.87Outside
39Khasta1,2922654.88Outside
40Mahadevpura1,2842016.39In the SIR
41Khun1,2542425.18In the SIR
42Zinzar1,2421906.54Outside
43Aniyali Bhimji1,2191727.09Outside
44Panchi1,1972265.30In the SIR
45Kasindra1,1952005.97Outside
46Sarwal1,1912295.20Outside
47Mundi1,1342015.64In the SIR
48Sangasar1,1052115.24In the SIR
49Nana Tradiya1,0901816.02Outside
50Gogla1,0011955.13In the SIR
51Sandhida9852164.56In the SIR
52Fattepur9661905.08Outside
53Jaska9461645.77Outside
54Chharodiya9451875.05Outside
55Kamiyala9421974.78Outside
56Kothadiya9351755.34Outside
57Umargadh8541695.05Outside
58Zankhi8471386.14In the SIR
59Dhanala8271794.62Outside
60Buranpur7981485.39Outside
61Bhalgamda7381475.02Outside
62Haripura6691454.61Outside
63Anandpur6611235.37Outside
64Morasiya6461006.46Outside
65Navagam6321304.86Outside
66Pipal6051394.35Outside
67Parabdi5791065.46Outside
68Salasar5721075.35Outside
69Kadipur5551134.91In the SIR
70Ratanpur385745.20Outside
71Cher290585.00In the SIR
72Bhimtalav122294.21In the SIR

Census of India 2011, village directory. The amenity questions were surveyed in 2009. These are not current conditions and this site never presents them as current conditions.

Population and households rank at Spearman rho +0.981 across these villages, which means a separate households ranking would put the villages in almost the same order. Publishing both as two pages would be padding, so the household column sits here instead.

How to use this without being misled

Use this to sanity check any sentence that begins with the phrase near the village of. Look the village up here first. If it held under five hundred people in 2011, the nearest bank, hospital and secondary school were almost certainly somewhere else, and the Census pages linked below tell you exactly where.

Do not read a small population as a bad location or a large one as a good one. Land near the industrial area is not the land people already live on.

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.

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.

Last verified: 11 August 2026

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