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India had 640,932 villages in 2011 (Census) and this has now increased to 676,260 villages (Min. of Panchayati Raj, March 2026). Of these, 592,765 villages were inhabited as per Census 2011, and 255,146 are Gram Panchayats.

The Multilingualism data (Census 2011) for Rural India was only released as an aggregated State/UT-Rural total for all 121 languages (with more than 10,000 speakers in India). The village-level multilingualism data is not in the public domain, though it can be estimated on the basis of each village's proximity to the 7,933 Statutory/Census towns.

The Language % in the table below shows the percentage of a State/UT's inhabited villages (592,765) which have at least some respective Mother Tongue speakers from the 121 primary Indian languages. Note that the % here is NOT the percentage of the State/UT's total rural population who speak that language.

No.	States/Uts	Assamese	Bengali	Hindi	Punjabi	Kannada	Malayalam	Marathi	Gujarati	Odia	Urdu	Tamil	Telugu	English	Other MT	Villages (Language # )	Gram Panchayats ( #)
1	Andaman and Nicobar	0%	38%	18%	0%	0%	6%	0%	0%	0%	0%	10%	7%	0%	21%	379	69
2	Andhra Pradesh		0%	4%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	4%	0%	88%		1%	16,202	10,622
3	Arunachal Pradesh	3%	6%	5%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	85%	5,192	1,893
4	Assam	49%	28%	6%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		16%	24,830	2,171
5	Bihar		0%	77%					0%		8%				14%	39,073	7,806
6	Chandigarh	0%	0%	70%	25%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		3%	0	0
7	Chhattisgarh	0%	0%	84%	0%		0%	0%	0%	4%	0%	0%	0%		12%	19,284	11,576
8	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	0%	0%	11%	0%	0%	0%	2%	33%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	52%	81	30
9	Goa	0%	0%	5%	0%	3%	0%	13%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	77%	320	151
10	Gujarat		0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	94%	0%	0%	0%	0%		5%	17,846	13,725
11	Haryana	0%	0%	88%	10%		0%	0%	0%	0%	2%	0%	0%		0%	6,613	5,708
12	Himachal Pradesh	0%	0%	86%	9%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	5%	17,856	3,518
13	Jammu And Kashmir	0%	0%	25%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	74%	5,921	3,218
14	Jharkhand		10%	60%	0%			0%	0%	1%	4%		0%		24%	29,378	4,039
15	Karnataka	0%	0%	3%		78%	0%	3%	0%	0%	6%	0%	4%		4%	27,246	5,899
16	Kerala	0%	0%	0%		0%	97%	0%		0%	0%	2%	0%	0%	1%	1,016	665
17	Ladakh	0%	0%	25%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	74%	236	165
18	Lakshadweep		0%	0%		0%	98%	0%	0%	0%		1%	0%		0%	6	5
19	Madhya Pradesh		0%	88%	0%		0%	1%	0%	0%	0%		0%		10%	51,896	22,931
20	Maharashtra		0%	7%	0%	0%	0%	81%	0%	0%	3%	0%	0%		8%	40,138	27,474
21	Manipur	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	98%	2,206	141
22	Meghalaya	1%	7%	0%	0%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		90%	6,350	1
23	Mizoram	0%	18%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		0%	0%	0%	0%		81%	609	1
24	Nagaland	0%	2%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	96%	1,266	1
25	National Capital Territory of Delhi	0%	0%	96%	1%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	1%	103	1
26	Odisha		1%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	84%	1%	0%	1%		11%	46,356	6,752
27	Puducherry		0%	0%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	99%	0%		0%	89	69
28	Punjab		0%	4%	95%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		0%	12,169	11,149
29	Rajasthan		0%	89%	4%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%			0%	7%	43,263	11,022
30	Sikkim	0%	0%	4%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	94%	392	194
31	Tamil Nadu		0%	0%		2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	92%	5%	0%	0%	15,042	11,124
32	Telangana		0%	4%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	4%	0%	88%		1%	9,832	7,954
33	Tripura	0%	56%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		40%	818	325
34	Uttar Pradesh		0%	97%	0%						3%				0%	97,556	57,523
35	Uttarakhand	0%	1%	91%	3%		0%	0%	0%	0%	3%	0%	0%	0%	2%	15,744	7,743
36	West Bengal	0%	90%	3%	0%			0%	0%	0%	0%		0%		6%	37,457	3,253