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Demographics

638,289 People
  • less than 10 percent of the figure in Kenya: 47,564,296

Household Size

3.5 Average Household Size
  • about 90 percent of the figure in Kenya: 3.9

Education

22.3% (122,423) Reached Secondary school or higher
  • about the same as the rate in Kenya: 22.81% 15,915,512

Employment

53.9% (276,006) Employment
  • about 10 percent higher than the rate in Kenya: 48.61% 15,786,331

Households

143,879 Households
  • less than 10 percent of the figure in Kenya: 8,767,954

24.5% (35,312) Have piped water
  • about 80 percent of the rate in Kenya: 29.96% 2,626,629

10.5% (15,086) Use electricity for lighting
  • about half the rate in Kenya: 22.69% 1,989,740

1% (1,368) Have a sewer or septic tank
  • about 10 percent of the rate in Kenya: 11.1% 973,571

Use of contraceptives

The contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) is usually defined as the percentage of currently married women who are currently using a method of contraception.
If more than one method is used, only the most effective method is considered in this tabulation.
LAM = Lactational amenorrhoea method
Source: KNBS Demographic and Health Survey Report 2014

Percent distribution of currently married women age 15-49 by contraceptive method

65.6% (65.6) Contraceptive prevalence rate
  • about 10 percent higher than the rate in Kenya: 58% 58

Maternal care indicators

86.1% (86.1) babies delivered in a health facility
  • about 1.4 times the rate in Kenya: 61.2% 61.2

Intermittent Preventive Treatment of pregnant women

The Government of Kenya’s policy advocates for pregnant women in malaria endemic areas to receive two doses of intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) in the second and third trimesters in order to reduce the risk of malaria infection. To assess the coverage of this policy, women who had a live birth in the two years before the survey were asked if they had received treatment to prevent malaria during their pregnancy

Knowledge of HIV prevention

Percentage of women and men age 15-49 who, in response to prompted questions, say that people can reduce the risk of getting HIV by using condoms every time they have sexual intercourse and by having one sex partner who is not infected and has no other partners

Treatment of childhood illness

Percentage of children under age five with fever in the two weeks preceding the survey; among children under age five with fever, percentage for whom advice or treatment was sought, percentage who had blood taken from a finger or heel, percentage who took any antimalarial, percentage who took any artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), and percentage who took any ACT the same or next day following the onset of fever; and among children under age five with fever who took any antimalarial drug, percentage who took any ACT
17.2% (17.2) Percentage of children with fever in the two weeks preceding the survey
  • about two-thirds of the rate in Kenya: 24.4% 24.4

Crime Statistics

1,446 (1,446) Number of crimes
  • less than 10 percent of the figure in Kenya: 72,490 72,490
Source: National Police Service
243 (243) Crime index per 100,000 people
  • about 1.3 times the figure in Kenya: 188 188

Voter Registration 2017

468,541 (468,541) Number of IDs issued as at Dec 2016
  • less than 10 percent of the figure in Kenya: 28,054,740 28,054,740
Source: IEBC
2,504 (2,504) Actual dead registered with IDs
  • less than 10 percent of the figure in Kenya: 92,277 92,277
350 (350) Number of registration centers
  • less than 10 percent of the figure in Kenya: 24,559 24,559
654 (654) Number of polling stations
  • less than 10 percent of the figure in Kenya: 39,510 39,510

Afrobarometer Round 7