 The total area of the Godawari municipality is .At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, it had a population of 78,018 people living in 14,915 individual households.Fulfilling the requirement of the new Constitution of Nepal, 2015, all old municipalities and villages (which were more than 3900 in number) were restructured into 753 new units, thus this municipality upgraded into Godawari Municipality  

In 2017, the Godawari village development committee was merged into Attariya and the city's name was changed to "Godawari Municipality".