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Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
CS
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
CHAKRA SABAR
Contact: 70****8158
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- LGD code
- 427159
- Pincode
- 765022
- Post office
- Gunupur
- Population
- 207
- Households
- 52
- Literacy rate
- 43%
- Sex ratio
- 971 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 159
- Distance to district centre
- 55 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 29 km
- Distance to Bhubaneswar
- 235 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 596 km
- Nearest railway station
- Gunupur · 17 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital Nuagada · 13 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Malapadar compares
By population, Malapadar ranks #144 of 206 villages in Gunupur mandal.
Literacy rate
%
43.0%
+0.1% vs mandal average
- Malapadar
- 43.0%
- Gunupur mandal
- 42.9%
- Rayagada district
- 42.1%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
971
−79 vs mandal average
- Malapadar
- 971
- Gunupur mandal
- 1,050
Household size
people per home
4.0
−0.2 vs mandal average
- Malapadar
- 4.0
- Gunupur mandal
- 4.2
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Malapadar at a glance
Malapadar is a village of 207 people in 52 households (Census 2011) in Gunupur block, Rayagada district, Odisha, the 144th-largest of 206 villages in Gunupur block. Literacy is 43%, about the same as the block average, and the sex ratio is 971 women per 1,000 men. It lies 55 km from the Rayagada district centre, 48 km from Pathapatnam, the nearest town, 17 km from Gunupur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 765022, served by Gunupur post office; the LGD village code is 427159. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital Nuagada, 13 km away. The sarpanch is CHAKRA SABAR. The population is estimated at 244 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bhimpur →
Key facts — Malapadar
- LGD code
- 427159
- Pincode
- 765022
- Post office
- Gunupur
- Population (Census 2011)
- 207
- Population (projected 2026)
- 244
- Households
- 52
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 971
- Literacy rate
- 43.0%
- Coordinates
- 19.15694°N, 83.93787°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Koraput
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Gunupur
- Member of Parliament
- Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- CHAKRA SABAR
- Block / Mandal
- Gunupur
Getting there
How to reach Malapadar
Nearest town · 15,954 people
Pathapatnam · ≈ 48 km
≈ 1 h 38 min by car · 1 h 57 min by bike
DirectionsDistance to cities · straight line
- Bhubaneswar235 kmcapital
- Kolkata596 km
- Hyderabad608 km
- Chennai781 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationGunupur17 km
- Bus stopGunupur Bus Station16 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital Nuagada13 km
- ATM / bankState Bank of India16 km
- Petrol pumpSri Kanthamma Filling Station23 km
- CollegeSri Venkateswara Degree College Kotturu43 km
- Police stationPOLICE STATION46 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Malapadar
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
- 🛕Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga (Dakinyam), BhimpurTemple2.1 km ↗
Same pincode
Villages sharing pincode 765022
Villages near Malapadar
Other villages in Gunupur mandal
View all 60+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-06
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)