sentences:  A total of 40,279 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.13 persons to a household, and 38,875 housing units.The majority of the inhabitants were Muslim, with 80.21% reporting that as their religion, while 19.58% of the population said they practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 137,412 in 32,244 households, of whom 68,053 were men and 69,359 were women; 6,520 or 4.74% of its population were urban dwellers.