Maharashtra has 36 districts, 28,087 gram panchayats and 44,929 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahilyanagar | 14 | 1,330 | 1,613 | 16 | 12 |
| Akola | 7 | 534 | 1,046 | 8 | 5 |
| Amravati | 14 | 843 | 2,027 | 15 | 8 |
| Beed | 11 | 1,042 | 1,299 | 11 | 4 |
| Bhandara | 7 | 541 | 898 | 7 | 1 |
| Buldhana | 13 | 876 | 1,489 | 13 | 6 |
| Chandrapur | 15 | 825 | 1,838 | 18 | 4 |
| Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar | 9 | 885 | 1,380 | 9 | 9 |
| Dharashiv | 8 | 623 | 728 | 10 | — |
| Dhule | 4 | 557 | 692 | 6 | 2 |
| Gadchiroli | 12 | 459 | 1,683 | 12 | 2 |
| Gondia | 8 | 548 | 942 | 8 | 4 |
| Hingoli | 5 | 563 | 701 | 5 | 3 |
| Jalgaon | 15 | 1,169 | 1,568 | 19 | 11 |
| Jalna | 8 | 782 | 955 | 8 | 4 |
| Kolhapur | 12 | 1,025 | 1,250 | 15 | 10 |
| Latur | 10 | 788 | 928 | 10 | 4 |
| Mumbai | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Mumbai Suburban | 0 | — | 86 | 1 | 21 |
| Nagpur | 13 | 761 | 1,991 | 30 | 12 |
| Nanded | 16 | 1,322 | 1,628 | 17 | 9 |
| Nandurbar | 6 | 641 | 955 | 5 | 4 |
| Nashik | 15 | 1,388 | 1,981 | 18 | 15 |
| Palghar | 8 | 474 | 1,009 | 8 | 8 |
| Parbhani | 9 | 707 | 847 | 9 | 3 |
| Pune | 14 | 1,399 | 1,952 | 21 | 14 |
| Raigad | 15 | 811 | 2,119 | 17 | 7 |
| Ratnagiri | 9 | 849 | 1,540 | 9 | 5 |
| Sangli | 10 | 696 | 765 | 12 | 8 |
| Satara | 11 | 1,505 | 1,763 | 16 | 8 |
| Sindhudurg | 8 | 432 | 761 | 8 | 3 |
| Solapur | 11 | 1,027 | 1,155 | 18 | 9 |
| Thane | 5 | 433 | 1,002 | 10 | 17 |
| Wardha | 8 | 522 | 1,407 | 10 | 4 |
| Washim | 6 | 491 | 809 | 6 | 3 |
| Yavatmal | 16 | 1,239 | 2,122 | 17 | 7 |
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 Maharashtra?
The Local Government Directory lists 28,087 village panchayats in Maharashtra, across 36 districts, as on 25 September 2026.
How many villages are there in Maharashtra?
LGD lists 44,929 villages in Maharashtra. The district with the most villages is Yavatmal.
What is the middle tier of panchayats called in Maharashtra?
LGD calls it Block Panchayat. Maharashtra has 351 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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