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Background: More than 1/3rd of older adults fall each year and 10-20% of falls cause serious injuries. Vast majority of these falls (>99.9%) are unintentional. This research is focused to identify prevalence of the risk of fall among elderly and associated factors were assessed in the present study. We are going assess the risk of falls and associated factors among elderly. Methods: A descriptive study conducted in community area by Department of Nursing School of Health Sciences, RIMT University among people of age >60 years during August 2023. A sample size of 100 is obtained by standardized fall risk assessment tool in community setup for assessing incidence of fall risk among elderly people. Results: The majority of elderly people i.e. 41.0% had moderate concern, 33% had low concern and 26.0% had high concern of fall risk among elderly people. The result showed that 32% of the elderly people were in the age group of 60- 65 years, 30% were in the age group of 66-71 years, 24% were in the age group of 72-77 years and 14 % were in the age of above 78 years. Majority i.e.59 % were males and 41% were the female. Maximum i.e. 45% were 10th passed, 33% were 5th passed, 12% were the 8th passed and rest of 10% were the graduated or above. 36% were working part time job, 27% were the full time job, 34% were not working and 3% were on the temporary job. Majority of elderly people 47% lived in nuclear family, 35% lived in the joint family, 15% lived single and least of elderly people i.e. 3% living with care taker. Conclusions: From the findings, present study concluded that 41.0% elderly people had moderate concern of fall risk out of 100. There was no significant association of fall risk with gender, educational status, type of family. Moreover, there was a significant association of fall risk with age and work status at p-value<0.05.