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Local business in Kolkata, by the numbers

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What Kolkata's local businesses are, how the city differs from the rest of India, and how many of its businesses can be found online.

46,526
businesses listed
#7
among Indian cities by businesses listed
70%
list a website

The short answer

Sunaam's directory lists 46,526 businesses in Kolkata, the 7th most of any Indian city. The largest groups are shops (16.9%) and banks and finance (15.6%). Compared with India as a whole, Kolkata has more salons and spas (3.4% of its businesses, against 2.3%) and fewer fuel stations and garages (3.2% against 6.9%). 69.8% of its businesses with an online footprint list a website, against 72.1% across India.

  • 46,526 businesses listed, the 7th most of any Indian city
  • The 5th most restaurants of any Indian city (5,362)
  • The 7th most clinics and hospitals of any Indian city (5,888)
  • 69.8% list a website, ranking 23rd of India's 25 biggest cities
01

What kinds of business are in Kolkata?

Salons and spas make up 3.4% of Kolkata's listed businesses, against 2.3% across India: the clearest way the city's high street differs from the country's.

Kolkata's businesses by kind

Share of the city's listed businesses.

  • Shops
    16.9%
  • Banks and finance
    15.6%
  • Business services
    15%
  • Clinics and hospitals
    12.7%
  • Restaurants and cafés
    11.5%
  • Schools and education
    11.5%
  • Hotels and stays
    6.2%
  • Salons and spas
    3.4%
  • Fuel stations and garages
    3.2%
  • Gyms and sports centres
    3.1%
  • Cinemas and entertainment venues
    0.9%
Kolkata's mix of businesses compared with India
Kind of businessKolkataShare in KolkataShare in India
Shops7,87716.9%18.6%
Banks and finance7,26115.6%16.6%
Business services6,99515%13.9%
Clinics and hospitals5,88812.7%11.5%
Restaurants and cafés5,36211.5%8.3%
Schools and education5,33711.5%11.5%
Hotels and stays2,8736.2%7.7%
Salons and spas1,5973.4%2.3%
Fuel stations and garages1,5023.2%6.9%
Gyms and sports centres1,4263.1%2.1%
Cinemas and entertainment venues4080.9%0.7%
02

The most common businesses in Kolkata

Schools are the single most common category, with 3,700 listed.

Top categories

Listings in each directory category.

  • Schools
    3,700
  • Restaurants
    3,558
  • Banks
    3,326
  • Financial services
    2,693
  • Clothing stores
    2,553
  • Clinics
    1,746
  • Hotels
    1,413
  • Beauty salons
    1,320
  • Companies
    1,281
  • Atms
    1,242
  • Diagnostic labs
    1,142
  • Electronics stores
    1,018
03

How Kolkata ranks among Indian cities

Kolkata's rank among Indian cities for each kind of business
Kind of businessIn KolkataRank in India
Restaurants5,3625th
Clinics and hospitals5,8887th
Salons1,5974th
Gyms1,4264th
Shops7,8777th
04

How many Kolkata businesses have a website?

69.8% of Kolkata's businesses with an online footprint list a website and 88.9% a phone number, against 72.1% and 87.9% across India. That puts Kolkata 23rd of the 25 biggest cities for websites. Every city compared.

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How we counted

Every figure is a direct count of the businesses in Sunaam's public directory, built from two open sources: Overture Maps (which draws on Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others; places with confidence 0.7 or higher, closed places and non-businesses left out) and OpenStreetMap. A business both sources hold is counted once. It is a count of listed businesses, not a census: a shop no map has recorded is not in it.

Website and phone shares are counted over the Overture listings only. Overture is built from businesses' own web presence (Facebook pages, search listings), so these shares answer “of the businesses with an online footprint, how many list a website?”. Businesses mapped on the ground list far fewer; the State of Local Business report shows both.

A city is the area around its centre: a square about 45 to 50 km across for Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune and Ahmedabad, and about 25 km across for other large cities, so “Delhi” includes parts of Noida, Gurugram and Ghaziabad. Anywhere else, a business belongs to the nearest town of 15,000 or more people (GeoNames).

Cite this study

Sunaam Research. "Local business in Kolkata, by the numbers." Teknesya Networks Pvt Ltd, 2026. https://sunaam.io/research/local-business-in/kolkata

You are welcome to quote any figure on this page with a link back to it.

Business data: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare (Foursquare data under Apache-2.0). Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).

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