sentences:  A total of 21,742 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.48 persons to a household, and 21,257 housing units.The majority of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 98.9% reporting that as their religion.The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 76,680 in 16,933 households, of whom 38,369 were men and 38,311 women; 1,001 or 1.31% of its population were urban dwellers at the time.