It is the largest municipality of Bhaktapur district with a population of 137,971 with 23,637 households.

[1] It was created in December 2014 through the merger of the Village development committees of Kautunje (the municipality's centre[2]), Sipadol, Nankhel and Chitpol.

[2] In March 2017, under new local level restructuring,[4] Suryabinayak Municipality was expanded to include the neighboring municipality of Anantalingeshwor, adding four more previous VDCs of Sirutar, Gundu, Dadhikot and Balkot.

According to the 2021 Nepal census, the predecessors of Suryabinayak Municipality had a population of 140,085.

[5] Different Buses from Dhulikhel and Panauti depart and arrive every of 5 min to Kathmandu.