Kajiado County is a

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in the former

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of Kenya. As of 2019, Kajiado county spanned an area of 21,292.7 km², with a recorded population of 1,117,840. The county borders

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and to its south it borders the

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regions of

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and

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. The county capital is

Kajiado Kajiado is a town in Kajiado County, Kenya. The town is located south of Nairobi, along the Nairobi – Arusha highway ( A104 road). Kajiado has an urban population of 24,678 (2019 census). Local people are predominantly of the Maasai tribe. ...

, but the largest town is

Ongata Rongai Ongata Rongai (also known as Ronga in local slang) is a town located in Kajiado North, Kajiado County, Kenya. The town is situated south of the Nairobi CBD and East of the Ngong hills and within the greater Nairobi Metropolitan Region. It li ...

. Its main tourist attraction is its wildlife.

Demographics

Kajiado county has a total population of 1,117,840 people, of which 557,098 being male, 560,704 are females and 38 intersex people. There are 316,179 households with an average size of 3.5 person per household and a population density of 51 people per square kilometre.
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Administrative and political units

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

Administration units

Kajiado is subdivided into five sub-counties with 25 county assembly wards across the county. 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. Source

Constituencies

Kajiado Central Constituency Kajiado Central Constituency is an Constituencies of Kenya, electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of five constituencies in Kajiado County. The constituency was established for the 1988 elections. Members of Parliament Wards Referen ...

Kajiado North Constituency Kajiado North Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of five constituencies in Kajiado County. The constituency was established for the 1966 elections. The entire area of the constituency is located in Kajiado County. Hon ...

Kajiado South Constituency Kajiado South Constituency, also known as Loitoktok Constituency is an Constituencies of Kenya, electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of five constituencies in Kajiado County. The constituency was established for the 1963 elections. The entire ...

* Kajiado East Constituency * Kajiado West Constituency

Political leadership

Joseph Jama Ole Lenku is the governor serving his first term after being elected in 2017 on and is deputised by Martin Moshisho Martin. Phillip Salau Mpaayeiwas is serving his first term as the senator and was elected in 2017
Janet Marania Teyiaa
is the second women representative for the county and was also elected in 2017 on a Jubilee Party ticket.

Education

Kajiado has 811 ECD centres, 568 primary schools, 124 secondary schools, 18 tertiary institutions and 7 polytechnic. Source

Health

The doctor population ratio is 1:26,094, Public Health Staff is 1: 7,619, and the nurse population ratio is 1: 1,068. Source

Transport and communication

A total of 2,419.2 km of road network cover the county. of this 1,111.9 km ic covered by earth surface, 932.3 km is murram surface and 375 km is covered by bitumen.
There are 11 Post Offices with 4,105 installed letter boxes, 3,220 rented letter boxes and 885 vacant letter boxes.
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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.

Services

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USAid Kenya

Nairobi Metro

Kajiado County is within Greater Nairobi metro.http://www.nairobimetro.go.ke/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=43&Itemid=90. The counties are: Source
NairobiMetroKenya Census

Stats

Population development

Urbanisation

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OpenDataKenya

Wealth/Poverty Level

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OpenDataKenyaWorldbank

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20060518005113/http://www.kajiado-district-dev-trust.org.uk/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20070402092415/http://www.kajiadochildrenshome.com/ {{Authority control Counties of Kenya