Kajiado County
Kajiado County | |
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Country | Kenya |
Formed | 4 March 2013 |
Capital | Kajiado |
Government | |
•Governor | Joseph Ole Lenku |
Area | |
• Total | 21,292.7 km2(8,221.2 sq mi) |
Population (2019) | |
• Total | 1,117,840[1] |
GDP (PPP) | |
•GDP | $4.362 billion (22nd)(2022)[2] |
•Per Capita | $3,524 (2022) (29th) |
GDP (NOMINAL) | |
• GDP | $1.604 billion (2022) (22nd) |
• Per Capita | $1,294 (2022) (29th) |
Time zone | UTC+3(EAT) |
Website | kajiado |
Kajiado Countyis acountyin the formerRift Valley Provinceof Kenya. As of 2019, Kajiado county spanned an area of 21,292.7 km2,with a recorded population of 1,117,840.[3]The county bordersNairobiand to its south it borders theTanzanianregions ofArushaandKilimanjaro.The county capital isKajiado,but the largest town isOngata Rongai.Its main tourist attraction is its wildlife.
Demographics
[edit]Kajiado County has a total population of 1,117,840 people, of which 557,098 are males, 560,704 are females, and 38 intersex people. There are 316,179 households with an average size of 3.5 people per household and a population density of 51 people per square kilometre.[4]
Sub-county | Population |
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Isinya | 210,473 |
Kajiado Central | 161,862 |
Kajiado North | 306,596 |
Kajiado West | 82,849 |
Loitokitok | 191,846 |
Mashuuru | 64,214 |
Total | 1,117,840 |
Source[4]
Religion
[edit]Religion in Kajiado County [5]
Religion (2019 Census) | Number |
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Catholicism | 204,086 |
Protestant | 461,955 |
Evangelical Churches | 260,678 |
African instituted Churches | 53,865 |
Orthodox | 4,162 |
Other Cristian | 60,271 |
Islam | 26,779 |
Hindu | 379 |
Traditionists | 3,421 |
Other | 12,229 |
No ReligionAtheists | 15,071 |
Don't Know | 4,083 |
Not Stated | 247 |
Administrative and political units
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Kajiado County is divided into 5 sub-counties and 25 Wards with Kajiado West being the largest and Kajiado North Sub-county being the smallest in terms of area in km2.[6]
Administration units
[edit]Kajiado is subdivided into five sub-counties with 25 county assembly wards across the county.[7]All the five constituencies have 5 county assembly wards each. There are 17 divisions which is further subdivided into 101 locations and 212 sub-locations.[8]
Sub County | Division | Location | Sub Location |
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Kajiado North | 4 | 30 | 72 |
Kajiado Central | 5 | 35 | 69 |
Isinya | 2 | 9 | 18 |
Mashuru | 2 | 11 | 19 |
Loitokitok | 4 | 16 | 34 |
Total | 17 | 101 | 212 |
Source[9]
Constituencies
[edit]- Kajiado Central Constituency
- Kajiado North Constituency
- Kajiado South Constituency
- Kajiado East Constituency
- Kajiado West Constituency
Political leadership
[edit]Joseph Jama Ole Lenkuis the governor serving his second term after being elected in 2017 and 2022. He is deputised by Martin Moshisho Martin.[10]Phillip Salau Mpaayeiwasis serving his second term as the senator and was elected in 2017.[11]Janet Marania Teyiaais the second women representative for the county and was also elected in 2017 on a Jubilee Party ticket.[12][13]
Education
[edit]Kajiado has 811 ECD centres, 568 primary schools, 124 secondary schools, 18 tertiary institutions and 7 polytechnics.[9]
Category | Public | Private | Total | Enrolment |
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ECD Centres | 423 | 388 | 811 | 24,631 |
Primary schools | 372 | 186 | 568 | 158,064 |
Secondary schools | 71 | 53 | 124 | 24,709 |
Youth Polytechnics | 7 | 0 | 7 | |
Technical Training Institutes | 7 | 0 | 7 | |
University Campuses | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
Universities | 5 | 5 |
Source[14]
Health
[edit]The doctor population ratio is 1:26,094, Public Health Staff is 1: 7,619, and the nurse population ratio is 1: 1,068.[15]
Government | FBO | Private | NGO | TOTAL | |
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Hospitals | 4 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 41 |
Health centres | 16 | 6 | 20 | 3 | 45 |
Dispensaries | 74 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 93 |
Clinics | 1 | 2 | 149 | 7 | 159 |
Source[14]
Transport and communication
[edit]A total of 2,419.2 km of road network cover the county, of which 1,111.9 km is covered by earth surface, 932.3 km is murram surface and 375 km is covered by bitumen.[16]
There are 11 Post Offices with 4,105 installed letter boxes, 3,220 rented letter boxes and 885 vacant letter boxes.[9]
Trade and commerce
There are one hundred trading centres in the county.
Tomato, Cabbage, Kales and Banana are mainly grown for horticulture production. Crops grown for cereal production include maize, sorghum millet, beans, cowpeas and greengrams. Some of the tubers grown are sweet potatoes, cassava, Irish potatoes.
The three main livestock kept are cattle, sheep, goats and they are kept for meat, offal, raw fats, fresh hides and skins.[17]
Services
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Stats for the County |
Source:USAid Kenya
Nairobi metro
[edit]Some Northern areas of Kajiado County borderingNairobiare within Greater Nairobi metro.
Stats
[edit]Population development
[edit]Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1979 | 149,005 | — |
1989 | 258,659 | +73.6% |
1999 | 406,054 | +57.0% |
2009 | 687,312 | +69.3% |
2019 | 1,117,840 | +62.6% |
source:[18] |
Urbanisation
[edit]County | Urbanisation in Nairobi Metro (Per cent)
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Kiambu County | |||||||||
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KenyaAverage | |||||||||
Urbanisation by County within Nairobi Metro |
Source:OpenDataKenya
Wealth/Poverty Level
[edit]County | Poverty Level in Nairobi Metro (Per cent)
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KenyaAverage | |||||||||
Poverty level by County |
Source:OpenDataKenyaWorldbank
See also
[edit]- Amboseli Reserveis in Kajiado County
- Nyiri Desert,a high proportion of the county lies in the desert
- Kitengela,a plain and a town of the same name in Kajiado County
See also
[edit]- Taita Taveta County
- Machakos County
- Makueni County
- Kiambu County
- Nakuru County
- Narok County
- Nairobi County
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