sentences:  A total of 35,041 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.07 persons to a household, and 33,622 housing units.The majority of the inhabitants were Muslim, with 70.94% reporting that as their religion, while 28.88% of the population said they practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 106,435 in 25,813 households, of whom 52,567 were men and 53,868 were women; 2,037 or 1.91% of its population were urban dwellers.