Karnataka has 31 districts, 5,946 gram panchayats and 30,775 villages in the Local Government Directory as on 25 September 2026.
Pick a district to see its block panchayats, gram panchayats and villages.
| District | Blocks | Gram panchayats | Villages | Towns (ULBs) | Assembly seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bagalkote | 9 | 196 | 627 | 17 | 6 |
| Ballari | 5 | 100 | 308 | 9 | 6 |
| Belagavi | 15 | 498 | 1,342 | 41 | 17 |
| Bengaluru Rural | 4 | 107 | 1,171 | 7 | 7 |
| Bengaluru South | 5 | 120 | 766 | 5 | 5 |
| Bengaluru Urban | 5 | 85 | 960 | 16 | 27 |
| Bidar | 8 | 183 | 642 | 8 | 6 |
| Chamarajanagar | 5 | 130 | 484 | 5 | 4 |
| Chikkaballapura | 8 | 157 | 1,558 | 8 | 6 |
| Chikkamagaluru | 9 | 226 | 1,149 | 10 | 12 |
| Chitradurga | 6 | 189 | 1,120 | 7 | 6 |
| Dakshina Kannada | 9 | 223 | 422 | 14 | 7 |
| Davanagere | 6 | 194 | 877 | 7 | 9 |
| Dharwad | 7 | 146 | 421 | 6 | 4 |
| Gadag | 7 | 122 | 343 | 9 | 4 |
| Hassan | 8 | 264 | 2,602 | 9 | 7 |
| Haveri | 8 | 223 | 707 | 10 | 6 |
| Kalaburagi | 11 | 261 | 938 | 13 | 9 |
| Kodagu | 5 | 102 | 522 | 5 | 2 |
| Kolar | 6 | 154 | 1,825 | 7 | 14 |
| Koppal | 7 | 153 | 634 | 10 | 5 |
| Mandya | 7 | 233 | 1,493 | 8 | 6 |
| Mysuru | 9 | 255 | 1,384 | 15 | 8 |
| Raichur | 7 | 179 | 887 | 13 | 7 |
| Shivamogga | 7 | 262 | 1,633 | 11 | 6 |
| Tumakuru | 10 | 330 | 2,744 | 11 | 11 |
| Udupi | 7 | 155 | 267 | 6 | 5 |
| Uttara Kannada | 12 | 229 | 1,363 | 12 | 6 |
| Vijayanagara | 6 | 137 | 362 | 7 | 6 |
| Vijayapura | 13 | 211 | 697 | 15 | 8 |
| Yadgir | 6 | 122 | 527 | 9 | 4 |
Blocks are community development blocks. Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland have no panchayats under Part IX of the Constitution; villages there fall under traditional or autonomous councils, so the panchayat count is zero. Towns come from our urban local body directory, also built from LGD.
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What the numbers mean and where they come from.
How many gram panchayats are there in Karnataka?
The Local Government Directory lists 5,946 gram panchayats in Karnataka, across 31 districts, as on 25 September 2026.
How many villages are there in Karnataka?
LGD lists 30,775 villages in Karnataka. The district with the most villages is Tumakuru.
What is the middle tier of panchayats called in Karnataka?
LGD calls it Taluka Panchayat. Karnataka has 238 of them. They usually match the community development blocks.
Source: Local Government Directory (lgdirectory.gov.in), Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India, read from the daily open mirror github.com/ramSeraph/opendata. Data as on 25 September 2026. Licence: Government Open Data License - India.
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