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 6 main roads, 118.9 km gravel, 16.97km asphalt, 6km cobble stone, and 21 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 1000 boxes. The main water supply source of the town is ground water distributed through piped network and  64 public taps. Open ditches were built to discharge storm water in the town.

5.2 Houses

There are 18,479 houses in the town. The housing backlog in the town is estimated to be 7000 housing units. Houses were dominantly built of wood and mud walls, Corrugated Iron Sheet (CIS) roof, cement flooring, nylon and chip wood ceiling. Available construction materials in the town are wood, stone, sand, Hollow Concrete Block and mud.

5.3 Transport

There is daily inter-urban transport service to and from six towns. The town has a bus station. There are 215 Bajaj taxis and 30 horse drown carts giving intra-urban transport service.