Bangalore Residential Market Overview
Area : 366 kms
Population : 48,07,019(1991)
Altitude : 90 above sea level
Latitude :
Latitudinal Parallels : 12 8' N
Longitudinal Meridians : 77 37' E
Climate : Salubrious & warm.
Warmest month : April 33 to 21 (avg.)
Coldest month : Jan 25 to 15 (avg.)
Rainfall : Mean Annual Rainfall : 859.6 mm
Lakes : Sankey, Yediyur, Ulsoor, Madiwala, Bellandur, Lalbagh, Hebbal, Mattikere.
Parks : cubbon, Lalbagh, Vidhana Soudha, Sankey Lake, Keningston, Jayanagar Rose, Raj Bhavan
Places : Vidhana Soudha, Govt. Museum, Planetarium, Vankatappa Art Gallery, Sir M
Visvesvaraya
Industry & Tech museum, Govt. Aquarium,
Cubbon Park, Lalbagh, Bangalore Palace, Someshwara
Temple,Bull Temple, Gavi Gangadeshwara Temple,
Venkakataramana Swami Temple.
Languages widely spoken & understood : Kannada, Tamil, English, Telugu & Hindi.
Sobriquets :
A Pensioners' Paradise
The Air-conditioned City
The Garden City of India
The Silicon Valley of India
India's City of future(Nehru)
| City | Area (sq. km) | Population (1991) |
| Bangalore Madras Delhi Calcutta Bombay |
366 572 541 852 603 |
48.07,019 53,61,486 93,70,475 1,09,16,272 1,25,71,770 |
Bangalore being the capital city of the state of Karnataka is the political, social & economic hub of the state. It is the fastest growing city in Asia. According to the 1991 census, the population of is around 4.8 million& is expected to exceed 7 million by 2000. With less than 0.5% area of the state, it is home to nearly 10.5% of its population.
Bangalore is India's fifth largest and its population has almost doubled over the past 10 years. This growth is attributable to economic reforms in India, the city's growing popularity as a software destination and its ability to attract individuals to live and work has been commendable.
Bangalore is not widely dispersed geographically as is the case with Delhi, Mumbai & Calcutta. The population growth & corporate influx that Bangalore has evinced since 1990 is not sustainable by the current infrastructure. Today, the city center faces a serious problem of congestion and over-crowding.
As the city suffers from congestion, almost 20 large developments are located to the north of the city & offer serviced plotted land for residential development. Only a handful of these projects propose to provide an integrated working and living environment designed to international standards.
Historically, the Government of India has taken the initiative to establish institutions like MAC, HMT, ITC, ISRO,HAL, NAl etc., in Bangalore. This thrust has helped the city develop to a hub of information technology,electronics, precision engineering, aerospace, defense research & electrical machinery. In fact, 33 of the top 200 software companies in the country are headquartered in Bangalore.