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 two main roads, while the remaining are secondary, collector and local roads. The distribution of roads as per the materials of construction shows that 9.4  km are asphalt, 7.461 km gravel, 6 km cobblestone, and 10.84 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 320 boxes. The main water supply source of the town is ground water distributed through piped network and 19 public taps. The town has open ditches to discharge storm water.

5.2 Housing

There are 10,920 regular and 1257 condominium houses. Houses were dominantly built of mud walls, Corrugated Iron Sheet (CIS) roofing, fabrics ceiling and mud flooring. The 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 12 towns. The town has a bus station. There are also 60 Bajaj taxis and 30 horse drown carts giving intra-urban transport service.