Infrastructure

Regarding infrastructure, the town has asphalt and gravel roads connecting it to different woreda, zone, region and Addis Ababa. The distribution of roads as per the type of construction materials shows that 15 km are gravel, 6.72 km asphalt and 20 km earth pressed roads. In addition to these; the town gets 24 hours electric supply from the national grid, and has mobile and fixed telephone lines, internet services, and a postal service with 250 boxes. The main water supply source of the town are Gerea dam or Midmar with pipe system. The town has open ditches to discharge storm water.

Housing

There are 10836 private and government owned houses built of mud and stone while stone and sand are widely available construction materials in the town.

Transport

There is daily inter-urban transport service to and from fifteen towns. There is airplane flight service to Axum. The town has bus station. There are 50 taxis and 350 horse-drawn carts giving intra-urban transport service.