 Asgede Tsimbla, was selected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2004 as an area for voluntary resettlement for farmers from overpopulated areas.Along with Tsegede, which was the other woreda selected in Tigray that year, Asgede Tsimbla received that year a total of 24,000 heads of households and 96,000 total family members.Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 135,621, an increase of 96,115 over the 1994 national census, of whom 69,143 are men and 66,478 women; 10,111 or 7.46% are urban inhabitants.