The national census in 2002 estimated, Kira’s population to be 140,774 people, of whom 67,222 (47.8 percent) were males, 73,548 (52.2 percent) were females. The Uganda Bureau of Statistics estimated the mid-year 2010 population to be 172,300 and the mid-year 2011 population to be 179,800.The town planner, however, estimated the population to be 300,000 in 2010 In August 2014, the national population census put the population at 313,761.

Economic Activities

A large number of young adults are engaged in boda boda (motorcycle and bicycle) for-hire transportation. Increasingly, residents of Kira Town are employed in salaried and non-salaried positions in the city of Kampala and return to Kira in the evenings to sleep. The Kampala Industrial and Business Park, an 894 hectares (2,210 acres) business development park developed by the Uganda Investment Authority at a cost of about US$180 million (about UGX. 470.5 billion), is located at Namanve in Bweyogerere Ward in extreme southeastern Kira Town.

Kira Town is divided into six administrative parishes. These are:

• Bweyogerere
• Kimwanyi
• Kira
• Kireka
• Kirinnya
• Kyaliwajjala

The political head of the town is the mayor. The supreme policy-making organ is the Town Council, composed of 24 elected councilors.

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