Area guide
Where to live if you work in Hinjewadi
Hinjewadi’s IT park pulls people west from all over Pune every morning. These are the five places they end up choosing between, and what each one costs you.
The trade you are actually making
Every option here is the same decision in different proportions: how much are you willing to pay to shorten a journey you will make roughly four hundred times a year?
Hinjewadi adds two things to that sum. The park is reached by a small number of approach roads, so most commutes are decided at a handful of junctions rather than by distance. And the monsoon counts: in July 2026, waterlogging across all three phases of the park, Maan and Marunji flooded several of the underpasses into it, and many companies told staff to work from home. A home that looks close on a map can be a long way away on the wrong morning.
Hinjewadi itself, with Maan and Marunji
The shortest commute available, and the newest homes closest to Phases II and III. If your office is in the park, living inside it is the only way to take the junctions out of your day.
What you give up is a municipal corporation. Hinjewadi, Maan and Marunji sit outside both PCMC and the Pune Municipal Corporation; roads, drains, water and power are split between MIDC, PMRDA and the village panchayats, which is a large part of why the same flooding and potholes come back each year. PCMC’s general body first voted to take these villages in back in 2015, and in September 2026 the Chief Minister said a decision would come soon. Until it is notified, it is a proposal.
Ask any building here where its water comes from and what it spends on tankers, and look at the approach road in the rain if you can.
Wakad
The established suburb next door to the park, on the PCMC side, and the first place most people who work in Hinjewadi looked. It is built up, with the schools, hospitals and shops that come with a suburb that filled in years ago.
It is also the one place on this list that metro Line 3 actually serves. Wakad Chowk is a station on the line, which runs from Maan through Hinjewadi to Balewadi and on to Shivajinagar. The twelve stations from Maan to Balewadi have received their safety clearance, and the line is opening in stages; check which stations are carrying passengers on PMRDA’s own announcements before you count on it. A second line, Nigdi–Chakan, is drawn to meet it at Wakad, but that one is not yet sanctioned.
What you give up is the easy commute you might expect from being next door. The junctions between Wakad and the park are the ones IT employees complain about most, and the storm in September 2026 left Wakad’s roads under water along with the park’s.
Punawale, Tathawade and Ravet
As Wakad filled, new building moved out along the Mumbai–Bengaluru Highway to Tathawade, Punawale and Ravet. This is where much of the new housing on this side of the city has gone, a good deal of it in large gated projects with their amenities inside the gate.
The trade is that these places are still filling in. They are in PCMC, and water is the complaint you will hear most: in September 2026 a federation of housing societies took PCMC a list of 36 societies in Wakad, Pimple Saudagar, Tathawade, Thergaon and Punawale that were relying on private tankers. No metro runs here yet, and the Nigdi–Chakan line drawn through them is a plan, not a project.
The project we represent on this side of the city, Yashada EVO, is on the highway at Punawale: registered with MahaRERA as PR1262022501492, with 2, 3 and 4 BHK homes and a sample flat that is finished and open. Its developer has not published a distance to Hinjewadi, so neither do we.
Baner and Balewadi
On the Pune Municipal Corporation side, south-east of the park, Baner and Balewadi are the usual answer for a household where one person works in Hinjewadi and the other in the city. Line 3 runs through both on its way to the University and Shivajinagar, so they are the one choice here with a planned rail link in both directions.
What you give up is money. These are older, more built-up suburbs, and they are usually priced to match. We do not represent a project here, and we would rather say so than stretch a name onto an address that is not in it.
How to decide: one weekday, and one wet one
Pick your two strongest options and drive each route on a weekday, at the hour you would really drive it. Not on the Sunday the site visit is scheduled for, when the roads are empty and everything looks close.
Then, if the season allows, do it once more after heavy rain, because on this side of the city that is when a route shows you what it is. Ask the people who already live in the building, not the sales team, what the approach road was like last July.
Multiply the difference out. An extra eighteen minutes each way is about a hundred and fifty hours a year. Decide whether the price gap is worth that, and you have your answer without needing anyone’s opinion.
This is also why we do not publish drive times. Every figure you have seen in a brochure was measured at an hour nobody names, and in a month nobody names either.
Questions
What people working in Hinjewadi ask us.
Working in Hinjewadi?
Tell us where your office is and what you need. We will send what we have, and measure the route from the gate rather than guess it.