 A total of 23,910 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.2 persons to a household, and 23,201 housing units.The majority of the inhabitants were Muslim, with 97.88% reporting that as their religion, while 2.01% of the population said they practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 90,386 in 19,733 households, of whom 44,737 were men and 45,649 were women; 4,539 or 5.02% of its population were urban dwellers.