It has an average elevation of 2,140 feet (650 m) above mean sea level and the land is undulating.

[6] According to the 2011 Census of India, Kanke CD block had a total population of 244,072, of which 216,930 were rural and 27,142 were urban.

[4] The percentage of Scheduled Tribes in Ranchi district, in 2011, was 47.67% of the population (rural) in the blocks.

Other tribes included (percentage of population in brackets) Lohra (2.46), Bedia (1.32) and Mahli (1.09).

[4] Large villages (with 4,000+ population) in Kanke CD block are (2011 census figures in brackets): Pithuriya (6,550), Katamkuli (5,903), Ichapiri (4,241), Neuri (6,907), Simliya (6,523), Kamre (6,114), Sukurhuttu (11, 862), Hosir (6,242), Mesra (9,476), Dumardaga (7,100) and Boreya (4,151).

The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 19.27%.

Languages in Kanke CD block (2011)[14] 60-70% of the population of Ranchi district were in the BPL category in 2004–2005.

The hill streams remain almost dry, except in the rainy season, and does not offer much scope for irrigation.

The fund, created by the Government of India, is designed to redress regional imbalances in development.

*Senior secondary schools are also known as Inter colleges in Jharkhand Birla Institute of Technology, established in 1955 by the industrialist B.M.Birla at Mesra, is a deemed university, it offers graduate, post graduate and Ph D programmes.

[28][29] Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya is an English-medium coeducational institution established at Mesra in 1988.