Dahisar, a representative image of Mumbai, not a photograph of this place.Mumbai, not this street

Dahisar

Mumbai's northern edge, where city rents finally break.

2 BHK typical

₹33K

/month

Rent per sq ft

₹37

high supply

Year on year

+5%

asking rents

Walkability

6/10

neighbourhood score

illustrative

At a glance

₹33K

typical 2 BHK · illustrative

Your journeys

Add where you travel and every area shows your journey first.

Why this fits

  • A balanced, middle-register area.

Something to consider

  • nightlife scores 3/10
4 homes here meet your must-haves

Living here

A Tuesday in Dahisar

Getting home

Two metro lines end here, a strange luxury for the city's last station inside the municipal boundary, so you walk off at Dahisar East, Anand Nagar or Kandarpada and sometimes straight home. Autos are cheap and everywhere otherwise. The railway station sits about a kilometre and a half west of the eastern pockets.

Your street

C.S. Road and L.M. Road do the local work and both narrow sharply near the station and the subway, where the encroachment is worst. Much of the housing is still low-rise, which gets rarer the further south you go. HealthFirst near Sanjhi Hotel and the 7 Star Bakery at Ganesh Nagar are the standbys.

How the week goes

Immersion here is local rather than a trip to a distant chowpatty. The visarjan kund on Anand Nagar Road and the civic ponds pull processions through the internal lanes for hours, and C.S. Road and the Ashok Van lanes are effectively closed to cars on those days. Holi bonfires shut short roads in the gaothan pockets.

What you'd put up with

Dahisar Toll Naka is the one fact that shapes a day here: northbound evenings and southbound mornings back up well past Anand Nagar, and it floods on top of that. The river carries sewage and the odour complaints never stop. BKC and town are an hour-plus each way, whichever way you try.

Written from the same researched record as the rest of this page. Every place named here is one we hold a source for. Where we had nothing to say about a corner, we left it out rather than filling it in.

Buying

What it costs to buy in Dahisar

Stamp duty

6%

5% where every buyer is a woman. You are in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.

Base duty
5%
Metro cess
1%
Local body surcharge
not levied

Government valuation

9,746/sq ft

Duty is charged on this or on your price, whichever is higher. Negotiating below it does not reduce the bill. And past a 10% gap, the difference is taxed as your income.

Zone: Dahisar, zone 89/413A (properties of Dahisar village). Two republishers of the Mumbai tables differ by a consistent 15%. We could not verify either against the IGR original, so treat these as indicative of the zone, not as your flat's valuation. Look up your own zone at IGR Maharashtra.

Rent against price

3.44%

Typical for the city

An ordinary yield for these two cities. Ownership costs more per month than renting the same flat; the case for buying is stability and the long horizon.

Gross yield across 1 listing here. Both the rents and the prices behind it are illustrative, so read the ratio rather than the rupees.

The vibe

Life in Dahisar

4 homes · 28 places

Dahisar is the last station inside the municipal boundary, and rents reflect that boundary more than the distance. The metro along the Western Express Highway has changed the calculation considerably — a commute that once meant a crowded local now has a second option. The area is residential, low-rise in parts, with the national park to its east.

Value seekersFirst-time renters in MumbaiFamilies on a budget

Scores

Illustrative
Walkability6.0
Public transport7.5
Food & cafés5.5
Nightlife3.0
Green spaces7.5
Family friendly7.5
Pet friendly6.5
Quietness6.5

On the market

Homes that fit

A curated shortlist, deliberately. FWA carries at most 200 homes and buildings per area, chosen and checked rather than scraped in volume.

The pulse

What's new in Dahisar

Fresh availability, price drops and approved community entries from the last few weeks, mapped where they happened.

The pulse

What's new in Dahisar

The micro-signals of the last few weeks, mapped where they happened. Every blob links to its entry in the feed below.

homes community

Built only from real signals in FWA's curated set. Fresh availability, price changes and ops-approved community entries. No invented activity; community entries pin to the area centre, never to a guessed address.

A tree-lined Mumbai street with vintage architecture
A tree-lined Mumbai street with vintage architecture. Wider-city photograph; Dahisar imagery to followK3ithvision

Sport & fitness

Courts, turfs and places to run

Verified places · September 2026
  • Force Playing Fields

    Dahisar East, box cricket and football turf

  • L.P. Shingte Turf

    Dahisar East

  • Nine Stars Turfs

    Bhoir Garden, Ghartanpada, open till 11.30pm

  • Dahisar Sports Club

    Dahisar West, free cricket coaching for students

Education

Schools and colleges nearby

  • Universal High SchoolSchool · ICSE and ISC, Dahisar East
  • Rustomjee Cambridge International SchoolSchool · IGCSE
  • Amar Jyoti English High SchoolSchool · CBSE and State board, Ketkipada
  • St. Louis High SchoolSchool · State board, Dahisar West
  • Matruchhaya College of Commerce and ScienceCollege · Dahisar East

The calendar

Festivals, crowds and what to expect

1 festival in the Mumbai calendar reach Dahisar, and 1 of them close roads. 1 have a date we have checked; the rest are set year by year.

  • Ganeshotsav

    Roads close
    14 Sep 2026 – 25 Sep 2026in 2 weeks· set by the Hindu calendar, so it moves each year

    Why this affects this area: Artificial immersion pond at Pandurang Shastri Athawale Maidan.

    Runs late. Maharashtra's annual loudspeaker-relaxation notification extends the amplified-sound deadline to midnight on four Ganpati days (2nd day, 5th day, Gauri visarjan and Anant Chaturdashi), and the Anant Chaturdashi processions themselves run past midnight into the next morning.

Dates for Hindu festivals come from the panchang and move by weeks each year; Islamic dates are confirmed by a moon sighting the evening before and can move a day. We hold checked dates through 2027 and show nothing where we do not have one.

Also noted locally in Dahisar
  • Ganesh Chaturthi

    Aug–Sep, 10 days

    Ganeshotsav is intense here because immersion is local rather than at a distant chowpatty: the visarjan kund on Anand Nagar Road plus civic artificial ponds draw processions through the internal lanes for hours on the main immersion days.

  • Navratri

    Sep–Oct, 9 nights

    Navratri garba grounds and Holi bonfires in the gaothan pockets also shut short local roads for a night or two.

Area-level colour from our own research, without a road-level advisory behind it. The dated calendar above is the sourced layer.

Worth knowing

  • Dahisar river is heavily polluted with sewage — odour complaints persist
  • Dahisar Check Naka floods and jams on the Western Express Highway
  • Heavy redevelopment and construction dust flagged across the ward
  • Long commutes: BKC and South Mumbai are an hour-plus each way

The decibel calculator— how loud does it actually get here?

Estimated at a Dahisar home · Aug–Sep

7590 dB

Like a loud procession passing — you'll pause conversations near windows.

Sound systems3.6/10
Firecrackers2.4/10
Street commotion3.6/10

Dhol-tasha troupes, loudspeakers and immersion processions; the city's loudest week on record.

Modelled estimate (noise-v1.0) from this area's festival calendar and quietness, anchored to city peaks reported by the Awaaz Foundation (Ganpati visarjan has been measured at ~115 dB). Not a measurement at your window — but an honest basis for the decision.

An auto and motorcycles on a busy Mumbai street
An auto and motorcycles on a busy Mumbai street. Wider-city photograph; Dahisar imagery to followK3ithvision

On the ground

Traffic and infrastructure

4/10
flow

Dahisar sits at the city's northern gate, and the Dahisar Toll Naka on the Western Express Highway is the single biggest bottleneck, with northbound evenings and southbound mornings both backing up well past Anand Nagar. On the west side, C.S. Road, L.M. Road and S.V. Road carry the local load and narrow badly near the station and the subway. Metro Lines 2A and 7 both terminate at Dahisar East and are the reliable way south.

Roads
Highway and Link Road good; internal roads narrow and encroached
Water
BMC supply generally regular; tail-end pressure drops in pockets
Power
Adani Electricity; reliable with short fault outages
Drainage & monsoon
Dahisar river overflows; Check Naka floods, desilting called inadequate

Getting around

Public transport and last mile

8/10
access
Metro
Both Line 2A and Line 7 terminate at Dahisar East, with Anand Nagar and Kandarpada walkable from most pockets
Rail
Western Line at Dahisar, about 1.7km from the eastern side
Bus
Good BEST coverage on the highway, Link Road and S.V. Road, plus routes north into Mira Road.
Last mile
Autos are cheap and plentiful; the twin metro termini mean many residents now walk to transit.
Residential buildings and greenery at dusk, Mumbai
Residential buildings and greenery at dusk, Mumbai. Wider-city photograph; Dahisar imagery to followRajkumarrr Comics

Running a home

Staff, deliveries and everyday life

What it costs in Mumbai

  • part-time cleaning (jhadu-pocha)₹3k₹9k / month

    One household, part-time, six days a week. Both sources price this by task bundle rather than by the hour: GetBai (BookMyBai) quotes INR 3,500-9,000/month for a 'part-time maid'; Kaamwalibais quotes INR 3,000-12,000/month and states the figure 'depends completely on tasks selected'. A single task (utensils only, or sweeping-and-mopping only) sits at the bottom; sweeping, mopping, utensils and laundry together sits at the top. The stated upper figure of INR 12,000 appears to describe a near-full-time task load, so this range is capped at 9,000 where both sources agree.

    Moves with: Number of tasks, flat size, locality (Bandra, Andheri and Powai are explicitly quoted higher), and how many other households the worker already serves in the same building.

  • cook, one meal₹5k₹15k / month

    IMPORTANT - this band covers one OR two meals: neither source publishes a separate one-meal and two-meal rate. Kaamwalibais quotes INR 5,000-15,000/month for a part-time cook and states the drivers are 'number of meals, family size, cuisine type'; GetBai quotes INR 7,000-15,000/month for a cook. One simple meal for a couple sits near the bottom; two meals with rotis for a family of four or more sits near the top.

    Moves with: Number of meals, family size, cuisine complexity, whether the cook also does utensils.

  • full-time live-out₹12k₹30k / month

    GetBai quotes INR 12,000-20,000/month for a full-time maid working 8-10 hours a day; Kaamwalibais quotes INR 15,000-30,000/month for 'all-day availability with cleaning, laundry, cooking'. The worker goes home at night.

    Moves with: Hours, whether cooking is included, household size, locality.

  • live-in₹20k₹40k / month

    GetBai quotes INR 20,000-35,000/month for a 24-hour live-in maid; Kaamwalibais quotes INR 20,000-40,000+ for 'round-the-clock availability', and both state that a private sleeping space and meals are provided by the household on top of the cash salary. 'Round-the-clock availability' is the sources' own phrasing and is not a lawful working pattern - see notes.

    Moves with: Household size, presence of children or an elderly person, night duties, flat size.

  • nanny / childcare₹10k₹35k / month

    GetBai quotes INR 10,000-22,000/month for a babysitter/nanny; Kaamwalibais quotes INR 12,000-35,000/month for babysitter/childcare, with the range driven by 'child age, number of children, experience'. The top of the range is for live-in infant care.

    Moves with: Child's age, number of children, live-in vs live-out, experience and training.

  • elder care₹18k₹40k / month

    Kaamwalibais quotes INR 18,000-40,000/month for an elder caregiver based on 'assistance requirements and health monitoring', and INR 18,000-45,000 for a patient caretaker handling mobility, medication and post-surgery care. This is non-medical attendant work; trained nursing is a separate and higher-paid category.

    Moves with: Level of physical assistance needed, night duty, live-in vs live-out, training.

How people actually find someone

  • existing staff referral

    The ILO's 2017 survey of over 1,000 employer households in Delhi and Mumbai found hiring is overwhelmingly informal: 51% of employers found their worker through neighbours and 21% through other domestic workers already working nearby; relatives and friends were used more in Mumbai than in Delhi. In practice a household asks the family next door, or asks the worker they already employ to bring someone.

    Cost: No fee. A referral costs nothing; do not let anyone charge the incoming worker for the introduction.

  • Urban Company (Insta Help, formerly Insta Maids)

    An on-demand hourly cleaning/cooking service piloted in Mumbai in March 2025, booked in the Urban Company app for a 15-minute-arrival slot. Launched at an introductory customer price of INR 49/hour (reduced from INR 245/hour), with Urban Company stating service partners are paid INR 150-180/hour plus health, life and accident insurance, and that 132 hours a month (22 days x 6 hours) yields an 'assured' INR 20,000. The brand was renamed from 'Insta Maids' to 'Insta Help' within days after criticism.

    Cost: Charged per hour to the customer; introductory price INR 49/hour at launch. Not a placement fee - the worker stays a platform partner, not your employee.

  • Helper4U

    An online placement marketplace operating since 2016 for maids, cooks, nannies, caregivers and drivers. Households buy a tiered hiring package to see helper profiles and interview candidates; the salary is then agreed directly with the worker.

    Cost: Tiered one-off hiring packages paid by the household; the site states 'No Commission, No Monthly Fees' on the worker's salary. Package prices are not published on the public pages.

  • BookMyBai / GetBai and Kaamwalibais (Expoint Recruitment Private Limited)

    Mumbai-region placement agencies covering Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai. They maintain a candidate pool, run their own identity and address checks, and place a worker with the household; both publish annual Mumbai salary guides that this dataset draws on.

    Cost: GetBai refers to 'one-time or annual service charges' for agency placement but does not publish the amount; Kaamwalibais does not publish a fee on its salary page.

  • MyGate

    Not a hiring channel but the system most MMR societies run the gate on: MyGate reports 27,000+ communities and 5 million+ homes across 50+ cities using it for visitor management, resident communication and society administration. Daily help are normally issued a gate pass or code through it, so a new worker has to be added by the flat owner or tenant before they can enter.

    Cost: Paid for by the society, not the individual household.

In Dahisar: Large local settlements supply live-out help at the lowest rates in the western suburbs, though live-in arrangements are uncommon. , our own read on the area, without a source behind it, unlike everything above.

What the law says

There is no legal minimum wage for domestic work here.

Domestic work is not a scheduled employment in this state, so nothing sets a floor. That makes what you pay a matter of conscience rather than compliance.

Police verification

Mumbai Police runs a free online 'Domestic Servant' registration form on its own site. The employer selects the jurisdictional police station and submits the worker's full name, date and place of birth, contact number, physical description, native and current addresses, languages, full previous-employer history and any police cases, plus a photograph and full-body photograph, an identity proof (Aadhaar, licence, passport), a residence proof (Aadhaar, utility bill, rental agreement) and the ID and photo of a character referee, ending with a certification that the information is accurate. Navi Mumbai Police runs a separate 'Servant Registration' form for its jurisdiction. Elsewhere in Maharashtra the application is made at the local police station. Guidance on the Maharashtra procedure states it is advisory rather than compulsory, and that the verification report carries no fixed validity period - it is valid for as long as the person accepting it treats it as current.

The official page

Worth knowing

  • Because Maharashtra has no notified domestic-worker wage, the only public wage benchmarks are (a) the state's general unskilled minimum wage, reported at about INR 13,921/month Zone I from 1 January 2026, and (b) what the market pays. A household paying a full-time live-out worker below that unskilled figure is paying less than Maharashtra treats as the floor for any other unskilled job, even though no inspector will enforce it here.
  • The last independent (non-agency) wage evidence for Mumbai is the ILO's 2017 employer survey: per household per month, washing utensils INR 400 minimum and about INR 1,000 average; house cleaning INR 300 minimum, about INR 1,000 average; washing clothes INR 300 minimum, about INR 1,000 average; child care from INR 3,000-4,000; care of the elderly or sick from INR 6,000. These are 2017 figures and are included only to show how per-task pricing works, not as current rates.
  • Registration with the Maharashtra Domestic Workers Welfare Board (Act of 2008) is the worker's own entitlement, for accident, medical, maternity, children's education and funeral benefits. It is voluntary and worker-initiated; there is no employer registration requirement in the Act. A fair employer helps with the paperwork and does not deduct anything for it.
  • The ILO survey found leave norms already shifting in employers' practice: workers typically expected two to four days off a month and deducting wages for that leave was declining. Written contracts were rare, and slightly more common where an agency was involved. Annual increments were negotiated case by case; there was no standard bonus structure - a Diwali bonus is a widespread convention rather than a legal entitlement.
  • For a live-in worker, the practical standard published by placement agencies is a defined sleeping place with a mattress and somewhere to keep belongings, an agreed number of meals, genuinely free rest time as distinct from merely being in the house, a fixed weekly day off decided before the job starts, space to change, and access to a phone to contact family. Confiscating or restricting a worker's phone, or holding their Aadhaar or other original documents, is a known cause of workers leaving and, where it restricts a person's freedom to leave, engages the constitutional prohibition on forced labour.
  • The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 expressly covers domestic workers, and the route for a household worker is the district Local Committee rather than an internal committee. The Martha Farrell Foundation's 2018 study of 291 part-time domestic workers found that not one of them knew Local Committees existed, and that only 191 of 655 districts nationally had constituted one. A household employing anyone should know their district's Local Committee exists and that the worker can go to it.
  • The gate is a real constraint in most MMR societies: entry for daily help is normally through a society app or register, and some societies impose separate service lifts, restricted hours or ID-deposit rules. Ask before you sign a lease if you plan to employ someone, and refuse any society rule that requires a worker to surrender an original ID document at the gate.

Researched 2026-09. Rates and rules both move; check the official page before you rely on the process, and treat the ranges as a shape rather than a quote.

Everyday, in Dahisar

  • Daily street markets on S.V. Road and around Dahisar station
  • Central, Reliance and Raghuleela malls cover organised retail
  • Full delivery coverage; thinner into Ketkipada and the far east lanes
  • Shops close around 10pm; the area winds down earlier than the south

The Dahisar address book

The precise version of the neighbourhood: real establishments, each pinned to its street or pocket, named from public listings.

Verified places · September 2026

Chemists

Sources: Google Business listing · apollopharmacy.in · Justdial

Laundry & dry clean

Sources: Justdial · tumbledry.in

Yoga

Sources: Justdial · UrbanPro

Gyms & training

Sources: Growfitter · FITPASS · official Instagram · Justdial

Arts & culture

Sources: thestringersmusicacademy.com · Justdial

Cinemas

Sources: BookMyShow

Markets & everyday

Sources: reliancesmartbazaar.com · Justdial · Zomato · Magicpin

The honest traffic read

Dahisar sits at the city's northern gate, and the Dahisar Toll Naka on the Western Express Highway is the single biggest bottleneck, with northbound evenings and southbound mornings both backing up well past Anand Nagar. On the west side, C.S. Road, L.M. Road and S.V. Road carry the local load and narrow badly near the station and the subway. Metro Lines 2A and 7 both terminate at Dahisar East and are the reliable way south.

When the streets fill up

Ganeshotsav is intense here because immersion is local rather than at a distant chowpatty: the visarjan kund on Anand Nagar Road plus civic artificial ponds draw processions through the internal lanes for hours on the main immersion days. Expect C.S. Road and the Ashok Van lanes to be effectively closed to cars on those days. Navratri garba grounds and Holi bonfires in the gaothan pockets also shut short local roads for a night or two.

Places verified against public listings on September 2026; hours and addresses change. Confirm before you rely on one.

Move-in

Setting up your home

Furniture, decor and first-week supplies. What's around Dahisar, and the supply districts the whole city shops from.

Move-in

Setting up your home

Furniture, decor and first-week supplies. What's actually around this address, and where Mumbai really shops for the rest.

live · Google Places

The supply runs— where Mumbai actually shops, nearest first

Live results come from Google Places around this exact address. Districts and picks were researched 7 September 2026 from public sources. Honest curation, not a live index.

The people layer

Plug into Dahisar

Real groups and forums, the civic layer, and how cooks and househelp are actually hired here.

The people layer

Plug into Dahisar

The groups where a lane actually talks, and how household help really gets hired here.

Groups & forums

r/mumbai

All Mumbai, the city's largest open forum — rental advice, neighbourhood questions, recommendations

Forum

Dahisar Residentssample

Dahisar, building & lane updates, water-cut and society notices

WhatsApp

Dahisar Buy · Sell · Recommendsample

Dahisar, furniture hand-me-downs when leases turn over, trusted vendor recommendations

WhatsApp

Dahisar Foodies & New-in-townsample

Dahisar, where newcomers ask everything from tiffin services to weekend plans

WhatsApp

Sample entries show what residents share here. They carry no links and are replaced as real groups are approved. Linked entries are real.

Advanced Locality Management (ALM) groups are street-level resident bodies recognised by the BMC since 1997 — the closest thing Mumbai has to an official hyper-local network. Your building's society office or ward office can point you to the ALM covering your lane.

Cooks, househelp & staff. How it actually works

  1. 1

    The society network hires first

    Most cooks and househelps in a building already work in it. Ask the society office and your floor's neighbours before anything else — staff who are known to the building come with built-in references and realistic timings.

  2. 2

    The watchman is the real directory

    Security staff know who serves which flats, who has a free slot, and who is reliable. A polite word at the gate typically produces two or three introductions within days.

  3. 3

    Agree the terms everyone uses

    Monthly pay scales with tasks and building norms — ask two neighbours what the going rate is on your floor before negotiating. Standard practice: one paid day off a week, a Diwali bonus of one month's pay, and advance notice on leave both ways.

  4. 4

    Do the verification properly

    Police verification for domestic staff can be done through your city police's citizen portal — Mumbai and Delhi run it online; Bengaluru accepts forms at the local station. Most societies require it, and good staff expect it. Keep a copy of ID, and share your own references too; trust runs both ways.

Verified platforms

Community layer researched 7 September 2026. FWA never invents groups or helper profiles, resident submissions go live only after review.

Where this information comes from

Photo credits
  • Rents, scores & inventoryIllustrative demoSeeded dataset: Plausible for the market, not observed. Never presented as verified.
  • Neighbourhood address bookSource-reportedPublic listings, checked September 2026: Real establishments with per-card sources; hours and addresses change. Confirm before relying on one.
  • Traffic, festivals & characterEditorialResearched editorial, dated: Written from named local sources; reviewed on a schedule.
  • PhotographyLicensedPexels & Unsplash, credited: Every image carries creator attribution. See Credits.
  • Maps & commutesEstimatedGoogle embeds · conceptual timings: Embedded maps are live; commute minutes are conceptual until a routing provider is connected.

Our rule: nothing is labelled verified unless a person checked it. Statuses will attach to every individual fact as the live data pipeline replaces this demo set.

Property mix

Illustrative demo data
1 BHK · 31%2 BHK · 35%3 BHK · 26%4 BHK · 8%

Rent intelligence

Rent trends

The illustrative 12-month trend, per-square-foot context and any live rent signal for this area.

Illustrative demo data

Typical 2 BHK asking rent · illustrative 12-month trend

₹31K₹32K₹33KSONDJFMAMJJA

Typical 2 BHK today

₹33K

Year on year

+5%

Rent per sq ft · inventory

37/sq fthigh supply

The everyday

Your daily life

The three closest of each kind, with the full address book in the guide below.

Eat

Representative eat photograph. Not Anna's Kitchen

Anna's Kitchen

Eat · 222 m · 3 min walk

4.6
Representative eat photograph. Not Little Bombay Canteen

Little Bombay Canteen

Eat · 639 m · 8 min walk

4.5
Representative eat photograph. Not The Corner Table

The Corner Table

Eat · 696 m · 9 min walk

4.8

Coffee

Representative coffee photograph. Not Copper Kettle

Copper Kettle

Coffee · 121 m · 2 min walk

4.0
Representative coffee photograph. Not First Press

First Press

Coffee · 424 m · 5 min walk

4.0
Representative coffee photograph. Not The Daily Grind

The Daily Grind

Coffee · 446 m · 6 min walk

4.2

Drink

Representative drink photograph. Not Barrel Room

Barrel Room

Drink · 311 m · 4 min walk

4.6
Representative drink photograph. Not Hopscotch

Hopscotch

Drink · 347 m · 4 min walk

4.8

Fitness

Representative fitness photograph. Not Stride Run Club

Stride Run Club

Fitness · 549 m · 7 min walk

4.2
Representative fitness photograph. Not The Pilates Room

The Pilates Room

Fitness · 765 m · 10 min walk

4.2

Groceries

Representative groceries photograph. Not Farm Table Organics

Farm Table Organics

Groceries · 935 m · 12 min walk

4.7
Representative groceries photograph. Not Green Basket

Green Basket

Groceries · 1.0 km · 13 min walk

3.9

Parks

Representative parks photograph. Not Children's Park

Children's Park

Parks · 202 m · 3 min walk

4.5
Representative parks photograph. Not Neighbourhood Park

Neighbourhood Park

Parks · 1.3 km · 16 min walk

4.9

Culture

Representative culture photograph. Not Heritage Gallery

Heritage Gallery

Culture · 404 m · 5 min walk

4.2
Representative culture photograph. Not Open-air Amphitheatre

Open-air Amphitheatre

Culture · 1.4 km · 17 min walk

4.8

Schools

Representative schools photograph. Not National Public School

National Public School

Schools · 486 m · 6 min walk

4.8
Representative schools photograph. Not Delhi Public School

Delhi Public School

Schools · 1.2 km · 16 min walk

4.3

Healthcare

Representative healthcare photograph. Not LifeLine Diagnostics

LifeLine Diagnostics

Healthcare · 460 m · 6 min walk

4.1
Representative healthcare photograph. Not City Care Hospital

City Care Hospital

Healthcare · 1.1 km · 14 min walk

4.4

Worth knowing before you sign

Things to know

Traffic

4/1010 = flows freely

Dahisar sits at the city's northern gate, and the Dahisar Toll Naka on the Western Express Highway is the single biggest bottleneck, with northbound evenings and southbound mornings both backing up well past Anand Nagar. On the west side, C.S. Road, L.M. Road and S.V. Road carry the local load and narrow badly near the station and the subway. Metro Lines 2A and 7 both terminate at Dahisar East and are the reliable way south.

Day to day

  • Dahisar river is heavily polluted with sewage — odour complaints persist
  • Dahisar Check Naka floods and jams on the Western Express Highway
  • Heavy redevelopment and construction dust flagged across the ward
  • Long commutes: BKC and South Mumbai are an hour-plus each way

Seasonal disruption

  • Navratri · Sep–Oct, 9 nights

    Loud, for days at a time: Navratri garba grounds and Holi bonfires in the gaothan pockets also shut short local roads for a night or two.

Water, power and roads

Water
BMC supply generally regular; tail-end pressure drops in pockets
Power
Adani Electricity; reliable with short fault outages
Roads
Highway and Link Road good; internal roads narrow and encroached
Drainage
Dahisar river overflows; Check Naka floods, desilting called inadequate

Researched for Dahisar in September 2026 and source-attributed. Conditions change — confirm anything you would sign on.

Getting to work

Commute from Dahisar

Andheri East (SEEPZ)

40 min 38 min

BKC

55 min 55 min

Powai (Hiranandani)

50 min 60 min
Preset examples are illustrative. Your own destinations use live Google routing

Local knowledge

Pockets of Dahisar

Micro-neighbourhoods each with their own character. Ask about these by name.

Dahisar EastDahisar WestAnand NagarOvaripada

Building intelligence

Popular buildings

Keep exploring

Similar neighbourhoods

Send this guide to someone

Shares the public Dahisar page. Never your answers, shortlist or saved places.