 The majority of the inhabitants said they practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 95.16% reporting that as their religion, while 4.7% of the population were Muslim.The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 48,690 of whom 25,456 were men and 23,234 were women; 16,442 or 33.77% of its population were urban dwellers.The largest ethnic groups reported in Kafta Humera were the Tigrayans (86.26%), the Amharas (7.76%), and foreign residents from Eritrea (2.96%); all other ethnic groups made up 3.02% of the population.