Gairikpur

• District: Amethi district (formerly part of Sultanpur district)
• Tehsil: Amethi
• Block: Bhetua
• Pargana: Ashal
• Thana: Piparpur
• Post office: Kalyanpur (postal code 228159)

The village has three temples:

• Shri Rishiveer Baba Devsthan
• Shri Kotebeer Baba Devsthan
• Shri Neem Bhawani Maata Devsthan

It has four schools:

• Primary Pathshala Gairikpur
• Swami Dashrath Maharaj Girl Inter College Gairikpur
• Junior high school balchandrapur

As of 2011, Gairikpur has a population of 1,754 people, in 275 households.[2] The main occupations in the village are agriculture and fisheries.

The 1951 census recorded Gairikpur as comprising 7 hamlets, with a total population of 652 people (328 male and 324 female), in 130 households and 127 physical houses.[5] The area of the village was given as 691 acres.[5] 16 residents were literate, 15 male and 1 female.[5] The village was listed as belonging to the pargana of Asal and the thana of Piparpur.[5]

The 1961 census recorded Gairikpur as comprising 9 hamlets, with a total population of 754 people (363 male and 391 female), in 150 households and 144 physical houses.[6] The area of the village was given as 692 acres.[6]

The 1981 census recorded Gairikpur as having a population of 1,020 people, in 185 households, and having an area of 270.34 hectares.[7] The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice.[7]

The 1991 census recorded Gairikpur (as "Gairik Pur") as having a total population of 1,272 people (617 male and 655 female), in 201 households and 200 physical houses.[4] The area of the village was listed as 271.00 hectares.[4] Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 268, or 21% of the total; this group was 50% male (135) and 50% female (133).[4] Members of scheduled castes numbered 438, or 34% of the village's total population, while no members of scheduled tribes were recorded.[4] The literacy rate of the village was 43% (345 men and 89 women, counting only people age 7 and up).[4] 296 people were classified as main workers (277 men and 19 women), while 3 people were classified as marginal workers (all women); the remaining 973 residents were non-workers.[4] The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 189 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 47 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 2 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 0 in mining and quarrying; 2 household industry workers; 3 workers employed in other manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; 4 construction workers; 2 employed in trade and commerce; 1 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 46 in other services.[4]