Gujarat MSME Statistics 2026: District-Wise Data

Gujarat has 3,028,267 registered MSMEs, the fifth-largest base in India and 6.42 percent of the national total of 4.72 crore. Two things set Gujarat apart from the other large states. It runs on two engines rather than one, with Ahmedabad and Surat almost level at the top, and it has the most genuinely industrial size mix of any big state, carrying a noticeably thicker layer of small and medium firms than the national norm.

This page breaks those registrations down across all 33 districts of Gujarat, using the official Udyam data published on the Government of India open data portal, cleaned and reconciled to source. The interactive map and the full, searchable district table are in the District-wise data section below.

Gujarat MSME statistics at a glance

• Total registered MSMEs: 3,028,267 (about 30.3 lakh)
• Rank among states and union territories: fifth of 36
• Share of India’s MSME registrations: 6.42 percent
• Districts covered: 33
• Enterprise size split: 98.1 percent micro, 1.79 percent small, 0.14 percent medium

Two engines: Ahmedabad and Surat

Most large states have one dominant district. Gujarat has two. Ahmedabad leads narrowly with 603,761 registered MSMEs (19.9 percent of the state), and Surat is right behind at 588,856 (19.4 percent). Between them the two cities hold close to 40 percent of all registrations in Gujarat. Rajkot and Vadodara form a strong second tier in the 220,000 to 281,000 range, and Kachchh rounds out the top five.

The five largest districts hold 59.8 percent of all registrations, and the top ten hold 73.2 percent, one of the more concentrated distributions in the country:

1. Ahmadabad, 603,761 (19.9 percent)
2. Surat, 588,856 (19.4 percent)
3. Rajkot, 280,662 (9.3 percent)
4. Vadodara, 223,028 (7.4 percent)
5. Kachchh, 114,561 (3.8 percent)

Each of those cities carries a distinct industrial identity: Surat in textiles and diamonds, Rajkot in engineering and castings, Vadodara in chemicals and engineering, and Ahmedabad as the diversified commercial hub. (District names follow the source spellings, so Ahmedabad appears as Ahmadabad.)

District-wise data

Explore every district below. The heatmap sizes and shades each district by its registrations, the Top 15 table ranks the leaders, and the full table can be searched and sorted by any column.

The most industrial size mix in the country

Gujarat's headline is its size profile, not just its count. At 1.79 percent small and 0.14 percent medium, its share of larger firms sits well above the national average of roughly 1.04 percent small and 0.08 percent medium. In a country where almost every state is 99 percent micro, Gujarat's thicker band of small and medium enterprises reflects a deep, long-established manufacturing base.

The larger firms follow the industrial map. Ahmedabad holds the most medium enterprises at 1,221, followed by Surat (719), Rajkot (465), Vadodara (279) and Morbi (237). Morbi's appearance is striking for a smaller district and reflects its globally significant ceramics cluster, where a concentration of mid-sized factories lifts the district well above its weight in raw counts.

The tribal east lags

Registration leans heavily toward the central and Saurashtra industrial belts. The tribal eastern districts along the Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra borders sit at the bottom of the table: Dang (2,404), Narmada (8,596), Chhotaudepur (12,112), Tapi (13,715) and Mahisagar (14,040) each register only a few thousand to low tens of thousands of enterprises. These are smaller, more rural and forested districts where formal registration is naturally thinner, and they are almost entirely micro.

How Gujarat compares with its neighbours

Among its immediate neighbours Gujarat trails only Maharashtra, and it sits just ahead of Rajasthan.

Maharashtra, next door, registers well over twice Gujarat's count, but Gujarat's stronger small-and-medium mix means its base is more formalised than the raw totals alone suggest.

What this means for businesses and policymakers

Gujarat is the rare large Indian market where products built for small and mid-sized firms have a real addressable base rather than a rounding error. For B2B sellers, lenders and industrial-services providers, the Ahmedabad to Vadodara corridor and the Surat and Rajkot clusters are where the scaled customers actually are. For policymakers, the same data shows where the formal manufacturing economy is concentrated and where the tribal east is being left behind.

Methodology and source

The figures come from the district-wise count of MSMEs registered on the Udyam portal, published on the Government of India open data portal at data.gov.in. Each number is a count of Udyam registrations rather than a survey of active businesses, so it reflects formal registration, not total economic activity. Enterprises are classified as micro, small or medium under the MSME definition, which is based on investment and turnover and was revised upward with effect from 1 April 2025. District names are kept exactly as they appear in the source.

Frequently asked questions

How many MSMEs are registered in Gujarat? Gujarat has 3,028,267 MSMEs registered on the Udyam portal as of June 2026, the fifth-highest of any Indian state and about 6.42 percent of the national total.

Which district in Gujarat has the most MSMEs? Ahmedabad, with 603,761 registrations (19.9 percent), narrowly ahead of Surat at 588,856 (19.4 percent). Together the two cities hold close to 40 percent of the state.

What share of Gujarat's MSMEs are micro enterprises? About 98.1 percent are micro, 1.79 percent are small and 0.14 percent are medium, a higher share of larger firms than almost any other big state.

Where are Gujarat's medium-sized enterprises concentrated? Mostly in Ahmedabad (1,221 medium), followed by Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara and Morbi, the last reflecting its ceramics cluster.

When was this data last updated? These are the latest Udyam registration figures available as of June 2026.