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 12.5 km are asphalt, 42 km gravel, 6.357 km cobble stone, and 1272 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 680 boxes. The main water supply source of the town is potable water from Hadiya River and underground water distributed through piped network and 36 public taps. The town has closed and open ditches to discharge storm water.

Housing

There are 22,099 private and government owned houses in the town. The housing backlog is 382. The available construction materials are sand, stone and wood.

Transport

There is daily inter-urban transport service to and from five towns. The town has bus station for outgoing and incoming passengers. There are also 266 Bajaj taxis and 408 horses drown carts giving intra-urban transport service.