Enumerators have kicked off house-to-house visits for the Houselisting and Housing phase of Census 2027 in Kerala on Wednesday (July 1, 2026).

More than 61,000 enumerators, mostly teachers and other government employees, have been deployed for the exercise. The State has been divided into houselisting blocks for data collection.

The enumerators are using a mobile app for data collection and the entire operation will be managed through a dedicated web portal, the Census Management and Monitoring System.

In Kerala, there are 682 Census towns and 758 villages. There are about 58,619 houselisting blocks in the State.

In all, 34 questions have been notified for the first phase. The Kerala government had issued a notification on May 7 seeking public co-operation in furnishing “accurate, unambiguous” information in response to the queries.

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

The house calls, which will last till July 30, are being conducted after a 15-day self-enumeration period in June.