India : Rural - 592,765 Villages
India : Rural - 592,765 Villages
IIndia had a total of 640,932 villages in 2011 ( Census) including 43,326 which were uninhabited. These effectively reduce to 592,765 inhabited villages in 2026.
The Ministry of Panchayat Raj maintains an updated Indian Village database LGD ( Local Government Directory), with the latest Block/Tehsil, Sub-District, District & State mappings however this LGD does Not provide any estimates on Population, at any point of time including when they recognize a new village ( not in the Census 2011 list).
We have deduplicated the India Village Census 2011 list of Villages to the LGD India Villages (as of 12 March, 2026). The Panchayati Raj LGD India village database has grown to 676,260 villages. Of these, 592,765 match to the Census, 40,075 are new villages (which did not exist in 2011), and 41,981 appear to have been re-populated (since Census 2011). In addition, 1,439 villages have been aggregated to form 44 DHQs post Census 2011. Also, we can identify 3,402 villages from Census 2011 that are missing in the LGD—an anomaly which may indicate that these have since become uninhabited.
| # | State / UT | Census 2011 | Panchayat Raj - March 2026 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # Villages | % | # Inhabited | % | # Villages | % | # Inhabited (Cen. 2011) |
% | 2011 # Removed to District / City Capitals |
% | # Re-Pop. (Cen. 2011) |
% | # New Villages |
% | # Missing (Cen. 2011) |
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| 1 | Andhra Pradesh | 17,366 | 2.7 | 16,452 | 94.7 | 17,957 | 2.7 | 16,202 | 90.2 | 232 | 1 | 890 | 5.0 | 633 | 3.5 | 18 |
| 2 | Arunachal Pradesh | 5,589 | 0.9 | 5,258 | 94.1 | 5,485 | 0.8 | 5,192 | 94.7 | 6 | - | 282 | 5.1 | 5 | 0.1 | 60 |
| 3 | Assam | 26,395 | 4.1 | 25,372 | 96.1 | 28,897 | 4.3 | 24,830 | 85.9 | 356 | 1 | 963 | 3.3 | 2 | 9.5 | 186 |
| 4 | Bihar | 44,874 | 7.0 | 39,073 | 87.1 | 48,927 | 7.2 | 39,073 | 79.9 | - | - | 5 | 11.9 | 4 | 8.3 | - |
| 5 | Chhattisgarh | 20,126 | 3.1 | 19,567 | 97.2 | 20,666 | 3.1 | 19,284 | 93.3 | 171 | - | 504 | 2.4 | 707 | 3.4 | 112 |
| 6 | Goa | 334 | 0.1 | 320 | 95.8 | 429 | 0.1 | 320 | 74.6 | - | - | 14 | 3.3 | 95 | 22.1 | - |
| 7 | Gujarat | 18,229 | 2.8 | 17,847 | 97.9 | 19,064 | 2.8 | 17,846 | 93.6 | - | - | 380 | 2.0 | 838 | 4.4 | 1 |
| 8 | Haryana | 6,841 | 1.1 | 6,642 | 97.1 | 7,090 | 1.0 | 6,613 | 93.3 | - | - | 192 | 2.7 | 285 | 4.0 | 29 |
| 9 | Himachal Pradesh | 20,690 | 3.2 | 17,882 | 86.4 | 21,592 | 3.2 | 17,856 | 82.7 | 2 | - | 2 | 13.0 | 931 | 4.3 | 24 |
| 10 | Jharkhand | 32,394 | 5.1 | 29,492 | 91.0 | 32,737 | 4.8 | 29,378 | 89.7 | - | - | 2 | 8.6 | 535 | 1.6 | 114 |
| 11 | Karnataka | 29,340 | 4.6 | 27,397 | 93.4 | 30,771 | 4.6 | 27,246 | 88.5 | - | - | 1 | 6.1 | 1 | 5.4 | 151 |
| 12 | Kerala | 1,018 | 0.2 | 1,017 | 99.9 | 1,666 | 0.2 | 1,016 | 61.0 | 1 | - | 1 | 0.1 | 648 | 38.9 | - |
| 13 | Madhya Pradesh | 54,903 | 8.6 | 51,929 | 94.6 | 57,503 | 8.5 | 51,896 | 90.2 | - | - | 2 | 5.1 | 2 | 4.6 | 33 |
| 14 | Maharashtra | 43,665 | 6.8 | 40,959 | 93.8 | 44,804 | 6.6 | 40,138 | 89.6 | 1 | - | 2 | 5.6 | 2 | 4.8 | 820 |
| 15 | Manipur | 2,582 | 0.4 | 2,515 | 97.4 | 3,850 | 0.6 | 2,206 | 57.3 | 144 | 3 | 20 | 0.5 | 1 | 38.4 | 165 |
| 16 | Meghalaya | 6,839 | 1.1 | 6,459 | 94.4 | 7,201 | 1.1 | 6,350 | 88.2 | 106 | 1 | 320 | 4.4 | 425 | 5.9 | 3 |
| 17 | Mizoram | 830 | 0.1 | 704 | 84.8 | 887 | 0.1 | 609 | 68.7 | - | - | 7 | 0.8 | 271 | 30.6 | 95 |
| 18 | Nagaland | 1,428 | 0.2 | 1,400 | 98.0 | 1,550 | 0.2 | 1,266 | 81.7 | 1 | - | 18 | 1.2 | 265 | 17.1 | 133 |
| 19 | Odisha | 51,311 | 8.0 | 47,675 | 92.9 | 51,800 | 7.7 | 46,356 | 89.5 | 114 | - | 3 | 6.1 | 2 | 4.2 | 1 |
| 20 | Punjab | 12,582 | 2.0 | 12,169 | 96.7 | 13,014 | 1.9 | 12,169 | 93.5 | - | - | 413 | 3.2 | 432 | 3.3 | - |
| 21 | Rajasthan | 44,672 | 7.0 | 43,264 | 96.8 | 52,261 | 7.7 | 43,263 | 82.8 | - | - | 1 | 2.7 | 7 | 14.5 | 1 |
| 22 | Sikkim | 451 | 0.1 | 425 | 94.2 | 485 | 0.1 | 392 | 80.8 | 29 | 6 | 26 | 5.4 | 38 | 7.8 | 4 |
| 23 | Tamil Nadu | 15,979 | 2.5 | 15,049 | 94.2 | 18,652 | 2.8 | 15,042 | 80.6 | - | - | 919 | 4.9 | 2 | 14.4 | 7 |
| 24 | Telangana | 10,434 | 1.6 | 9,834 | 94.2 | 11,308 | 1.7 | 9,832 | 86.9 | 2 | - | 600 | 5.3 | 874 | 7.7 | - |
| 25 | Tripura | 875 | 0.1 | 863 | 98.6 | 898 | 0.1 | 818 | 91.1 | - | - | 8 | 0.9 | 72 | 8.0 | 45 |
| 26 | Uttarakhand | 16,793 | 2.6 | 15,745 | 93.8 | 17,343 | 2.6 | 15,744 | 90.8 | - | - | 1 | 6.0 | 551 | 3.2 | 1 |
| 27 | Uttar Pradesh | 1,06,774 | 16.7 | 97,813 | 91.6 | 1,10,274 | 16.3 | 97,556 | 88.5 | 257 | - | 8 | 8.1 | 3 | 3.2 | - |
| 28 | West Bengal | 40,203 | 6.3 | 37,468 | 93.2 | 41,006 | 6.1 | 37,457 | 91.3 | - | - | 2 | 6.7 | 818 | 2.0 | 11 |
| 1 | UT - Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 555 | 0.1 | 396 | 71.4 | 559 | 0.1 | 379 | 67.8 | 17 | 3 | 159 | 28.4 | 4 | 0.7 | - |
| 2 | UT - Chandigarh | 5 | 0.0 | 5 | 100.0 | - | 0.0 | - | 0.0 | - | - | - | 0.0 | - | 0.0 | 5 |
| 3 | UT - Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 84 | 0.0 | 84 | 100.0 | 101 | 0.0 | 81 | 80.2 | - | - | - | 0.0 | 20 | 19.8 | 3 |
| 4 | UT - Jammu & Kashmir | 6,310 | 1.0 | 6,096 | 96.6 | 6,857 | 1.0 | 5,921 | 86.3 | - | - | 180 | 2.6 | 756 | 11.0 | 175 |
| 5 | UT - Ladakh | 238 | 0.0 | 236 | 99.2 | 248 | 0.0 | 236 | 95.2 | - | - | 2 | 0.8 | 10 | 4.0 | - |
| 6 | UT - Lakshadweep | 21 | 0.0 | 6 | 28.6 | 27 | 0.0 | 6 | 22.2 | - | - | 15 | 55.6 | 6 | 22.2 | - |
| 7 | UT - NCT of Delhi | 112 | 0.0 | 103 | 92.0 | 222 | 0.0 | 103 | 46.4 | - | - | 9 | 4.1 | 110 | 49.5 | - |
| 8 | UT - Puducherry | 90 | 0.0 | 90 | 100.0 | 129 | 0.0 | 89 | 69.0 | - | - | - | 0.0 | 40 | 31.0 | 1 |
| INDIA - TOTAL | 6,40,932 | 100.0 | 5,97,606 | 93.2 | 6,76,260 | 100 | 5,92,765 | 87.9 | 1,439 | 0.2 | 41,981 | 6.2 | 40,075 | 5.9 | 3,402 | |