 A total of 31,933 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.24 persons to a household, and 30,886 housing units.The majority of the inhabitants were Muslim, with 64.24% reporting that as their religion, while 35.67% of the population said they practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 101,521 in 24,495 households, of whom 50,179 were men and 51,342 were women; 1,678 or 1.65% of its population were urban dwellers.