 A total of 25,414 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.48 persons to a household, and 24,407 housing units.The majority of the inhabitants said they practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 97.85% reporting that as their religion, while 2.1% of the population were Muslim.The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 79,832, of whom 40,547 were men and 39,285 were women; 5,929 or 7.43% of its population were urban dwellers.