Kerala has 14 districts, 941 gram panchayats and 1,666 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alappuzha | 12 | 72 | 93 | 6 | 10 |
| Ernakulam | 14 | 82 | 127 | 14 | 14 |
| Idukki | 8 | 52 | 68 | 2 | 5 |
| Kannur | 11 | 71 | 133 | 10 | 11 |
| Kasaragod | 6 | 38 | 129 | 3 | 5 |
| Kollam | 11 | 68 | 105 | 5 | 12 |
| Kottayam | 11 | 71 | 100 | 6 | 9 |
| Kozhikode | 12 | 70 | 118 | 8 | 12 |
| Malappuram | 15 | 94 | 138 | 12 | 17 |
| Palakkad | 13 | 88 | 157 | 7 | 12 |
| Pathanamthitta | 8 | 53 | 70 | 4 | 6 |
| Thiruvananthapuram | 11 | 73 | 124 | 5 | 12 |
| Thrissur | 16 | 86 | 255 | 8 | 14 |
| Wayanad | 4 | 23 | 49 | 3 | 3 |
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 Kerala?
The Local Government Directory lists 941 grama panchayats in Kerala, across 14 districts, as on 25 September 2026.
How many villages are there in Kerala?
LGD lists 1,666 villages in Kerala. The district with the most villages is Thrissur.
What is the middle tier of panchayats called in Kerala?
LGD calls it Block Panchayat. Kerala has 152 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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