5.1 Infrastructure

Regarding infrastructure the town has asphalt and gravel roads connecting it to different weredas in the zone, surrounding zones, towns in the region and Addis Ababa. In the town there are four main roads. The distribution of roads as per the type of construction materials shows that 5 km are asphalt, 30 km gravel, 3 km cobblestone, and 71 km compacted earth roads. The town gets 24 hours electric supply from the national grid, and has wireless, mobile and fixed telephone lines, internet services, and a postal service with 500 boxes. The main water supply sources of the town is from river distributed through piped network and 29 public taps.

5.2 Housing

There are 8155 government and private owned houses in the town. The available construction materials in the town are stone, sand, Hollow Concrete Blocks and wood.

5.3 Transport

There is daily inter-urban transport service to and from 3 towns. The town has a bus station. There are also 12 Bajajs taxis and one mule drown cart giving intra-urban transport service.