It is about 28 km from the Varanasi cantt railway station and about 7 km from the Rajatalab railway station in the Sevapuri assembly segment and Aaraji Line Block.

The village comes under the constituency of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who adopted the village on 7 November 2014 under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana ("MP's model village scheme").

According to the ancestors of this village, Jayapur is nearly 400 years old.

According to BHU's political science department's HoD, Prof KK Mishra, in the 17th century, when the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was said to be on a temple-demolition spree, his soldiers caught attention of an old temple of Lord Hanuman in the village.

Hindi and Bhojpuri are spoken in Jayapur village and written in Devanagari scripts.