A planned grid of seven sectors in south-east Bengaluru, wrapped around a lake and wedged between three of the city's busiest arterial roads. Here is how the neighbourhood is actually put together — and who it suits.
HSR Layout is a planned residential neighbourhood in south-east Bengaluru, pin code 560102, laid out by the Bangalore Development Authority from 1985 across seven numbered sectors. Its name is short for Hosur–Sarjapur Road Layout. It is best known for its grid of wide roads, its café and startup density, and its position beside the Outer Ring Road tech corridor.
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name | Hosur–Sarjapur Road Layout |
| City | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
| Pin code | 560102 |
| Planned by | Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) |
| Developed from | 1985 |
| Sectors | Seven (Sectors 1–7) |
| Nearest arterial roads | Outer Ring Road, Hosur Road, Sarjapur Road |
| Metro | HSR Layout station (Blue Line) under construction, expected around December 2026 |
HSR Layout sits in south-east Bengaluru, close to where the Outer Ring Road, Hosur Road and Sarjapur Road converge. Koramangala lies to the north-west, Bellandur to the north-east, and BTM Layout to the west. Silk Board Junction — one of the city's most notorious interchanges — sits immediately to the south-west.
That position is the single most important thing to understand about the neighbourhood. HSR Layout is not a destination people pass through on the way somewhere else; it is a pocket of planned residential streets sitting just off three major arteries. You get arterial access without arterial noise, provided you pick the right sector.
The layout is divided into seven sectors, built on a grid of wide roads and regular intersections — unusual for Bengaluru, where most neighbourhoods grew organically. Main roads run north–south and cross roads run east–west, which is why addresses here read as a main-and-cross pair rather than a street name.
The layout is also small: no two sector centres are more than 1.9 km apart. So choosing a sector is a decision about what you can walk to — the commercial spine on 27th Main, a metro station site, or nothing but residential streets — rather than about how far you will drive.
We have measured all seven. Our sector-by-sector guide to HSR Layout sets out what each of Sectors 1 to 7 is, which named localities sit in each, and how far each sector centre is from both metro stations, Agara Lake and the BDA Complex.
Not yet — but one is coming. This is the detail most often reported incorrectly, so it is worth stating precisely:
Our full guide to the HSR Layout metro station goes through every published opening date and who said it, the 13 Phase 2A stations the Blue Line will connect the layout to, the second station at Agara, and how to reach the working Yellow Line today.
HSR Layout's main draw for working professionals is proximity to the Outer Ring Road tech corridor. Approximate road distances, measured from around the centre of the layout:
| Destination | Approx. distance |
|---|---|
| Ecospace, Bellandur | ~5–6 km |
| Embassy TechVillage | ~8.5 km (around 30 minutes in normal traffic) |
| Silk Board Junction | ~1.5–2 km, depending on your sector |
| Kempegowda International Airport | ~45–50 km by road |
Treat these as distances, not promises. Bengaluru traffic makes journey times highly variable, and the same 8 km can take 25 minutes or an hour depending on the time of day and what Silk Board is doing. Our full guide to commuting from HSR Layout covers each route in detail — Electronic City, Whitefield, the ORR tech parks and the airport — along with what the Silk Board double-decker flyover and the incoming metro actually change.
HSR Layout built a reputation as one of Bengaluru's earliest startup clusters, and the café culture followed the workforce. Most cafés along and around 27th Main double as informal work spaces, with reliable power backup and Wi-Fi — a practical consideration in a city where both can be intermittent.
Agara Lake sits on the edge of the layout and functions as the neighbourhood's green lung, with a maintained walking and jogging track around it. It is a genuine amenity rather than a marketing line — early mornings bring walkers, runners and birdwatchers.
The BDA grid is the quiet advantage. Wide roads, numbered sectors and regular intersections make HSR Layout easier to navigate, easier to give directions in, and less prone to the dead ends and one-way tangles that characterise older parts of Bengaluru.
It suits people less well if you work in the north or west of the city — Whitefield, Hebbal or the CBD are all meaningful cross-city commutes from here, and the Blue Line will only partly change that.
HSR Layout is in south-east Bengaluru, pin code 560102, near the point where the Outer Ring Road, Hosur Road and Sarjapur Road meet. It sits between Koramangala to the north-west and Bellandur to the north-east.
Not yet. The HSR Layout metro station is on the Blue Line, part of Phase 2A along the Outer Ring Road, and is under construction with an expected opening around December 2026. The nearest operational station today is Central Silk Board on the Yellow Line, which opened on 10 August 2025.
It suits people working along the Outer Ring Road corridor particularly well. Ecospace Bellandur is roughly 5–6 km away and Embassy TechVillage roughly 8.5 km, and the layout's planned grid means quieter residential streets sit close to the arterial roads without being on them.
We are publishing a new guide to the neighbourhood every week. Published so far:
Still to come:
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