Census 2027: Census Commissioners begin door-to-door visits for familiarization phase in Kerala

Government employees deputed for Census 2027 conduct door-to-door census in Kochi on Wednesday. | Photo credit: H. Vibhu

Census Commissioners began house-to-house visits in Kerala on Wednesday (July 1, 2026) for the home and housing familiarization phase of the Kerala Census 2027.

More than 61,000 enumerators, mostly teachers and other civil servants, were deployed in the exercise. The state was divided into blocks of household lists for data collection.

Enumerators use a mobile application for data collection, and the entire operation will be managed through a specialized web portal of the Census Management and Monitoring System.

There are 682 census towns and 758 villages in Kerala. There are about 58,619 apartment blocks in the state.

Kerala starts house-to-house survey for Census 2027

Kerala starts house-to-house survey for Census 2027 | Video Credit: The Hindu

A total of 34 questions were announced for the first phase. The Kerala government issued a notice on May 7 seeking the public’s cooperation in providing “accurate, unambiguous” information in response to queries.

India’s first digital census, Census 2027, is being conducted in two phases. Phase I consists of Houselisting and Housing Census (HLO) to be held in Kerala from July 1 to July 30; and Phase II – Population Census – will be held in February 2027.

The Demographic Panel for the Study of Population Changes after the 2011 Census is preparing a detailed questionnaire for states

House calls, which will last until July 30, are made after a 15-day self-enumeration period in June.

Published – 1 July 2026 13:25 IST