sentences:  A total of 22,565 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.17 persons to a household, and 21,345 housing units.The majority of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 93.2% reporting that as their religion, while 6.7% of the population said they were Muslim.The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 35,600, of whom 18,553 were men and 17,047 women; 289 or 0.81% of its population were urban dwellers at the time.