 Malka Balo has 6 kilometers of gravel and 85 kilometers of dry-weather road, for an average road density of 61.9 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers.About 19.4% of the urban, 9.2% of the rural and 9.7% of the total population has access to drinking water.The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 177,416, of whom 90,609 were men and 86,807 were women; 9,342 or 5.27% of its population were urban dwellers.