Tamil Nadu has 38 districts, 12,571 gram panchayats and 18,681 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariyalur | 6 | 201 | 219 | 4 | 3 |
| Chengalpattu | 8 | 359 | 706 | 11 | 8 |
| Chennai | 0 | 1 | 144 | 1 | 22 |
| Coimbatore | 12 | 235 | 331 | 41 | 12 |
| Cuddalore | 14 | 683 | 930 | 21 | 10 |
| Dharmapuri | 10 | 250 | 520 | 11 | 5 |
| Dindigul | 14 | 308 | 397 | 27 | 7 |
| Erode | 14 | 234 | 486 | 47 | 9 |
| Kallakurichi | 9 | 416 | 597 | 8 | 5 |
| Kancheepuram | 5 | 274 | 556 | 6 | 5 |
| Kanniyakumari | 9 | 94 | 263 | 56 | 6 |
| Karur | 8 | 158 | 204 | 12 | 4 |
| Krishnagiri | 10 | 333 | 710 | 8 | 7 |
| Madurai | 13 | 420 | 697 | 13 | 9 |
| Mayiladuthurai | 5 | 241 | 287 | 6 | 3 |
| Nagapattinam | 6 | 193 | 241 | 6 | 3 |
| Namakkal | 15 | 309 | 489 | 24 | 6 |
| Perambalur | 4 | 121 | 166 | 5 | 2 |
| Pudukkottai | 13 | 488 | 780 | 11 | 9 |
| Ramanathapuram | 11 | 429 | 409 | 11 | 5 |
| Ranipet | 7 | 288 | 356 | 14 | 6 |
| Salem | 20 | 386 | 710 | 38 | 11 |
| Sivaganga | 12 | 441 | 521 | 15 | 4 |
| Tenkasi | 10 | 222 | 277 | 23 | 5 |
| Thanjavur | 14 | 589 | 912 | 24 | 8 |
| The Nilgiris | 4 | 96 | 109 | 15 | 3 |
| Theni | 8 | 130 | 129 | 28 | 4 |
| Thiruvallur | 14 | 525 | 811 | 15 | 9 |
| Thiruvarur | 10 | 430 | 576 | 11 | 4 |
| Thoothukkudi | 12 | 403 | 494 | 22 | 7 |
| Tiruchirappalli | 14 | 408 | 558 | 20 | 9 |
| Tirunelveli | 9 | 204 | 380 | 21 | 7 |
| Tirupathur | 6 | 209 | 251 | 7 | 7 |
| Tiruppur | 13 | 265 | 358 | 22 | 9 |
| Tiruvannamalai | 18 | 842 | 1,126 | 14 | 8 |
| Vellore | 7 | 248 | 391 | 7 | 9 |
| Viluppuram | 13 | 688 | 966 | 10 | 10 |
| Virudhunagar | 11 | 450 | 624 | 15 | 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 Tamil Nadu?
The Local Government Directory lists 12,571 gram panchayats in Tamil Nadu, across 38 districts, as on 25 September 2026.
How many villages are there in Tamil Nadu?
LGD lists 18,681 villages in Tamil Nadu. The district with the most villages is Tiruvannamalai.
What is the middle tier of panchayats called in Tamil Nadu?
LGD calls it Panchayat Samiti. Tamil Nadu has 397 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.
Each page below is built from an official source and credited on the page.
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