[2] Budaka is approximately 29 kilometres (18 mi) west of Mbale, the largest city in Uganda's Eastern Region, along the Iganga–Tirinyi–Kamonkoli–Mbale Road.

[5] Budaka Town is situated at an average elevation of 1,160 metres (3,806 ft) above mean sea level.

The population of the town is calculated to have grown at an average annual growth rate of 3.5 percent, between 2015 and 2020, according to UBOS.

[1] Naboa Sub-County was given that name by British Colonial masters because the area was full of Grammodes geometrica moths (Nziira) of the family Erebidae.

[citation needed] The Basimba people of the Leopard Clan with the names Katunku, Ngulya, Kaabya, Mwati, Kabolesa, Namuyonjo, Ntembe of Lupada, resident in Naboa Sub-County, Budaka County, Budaka District live among the Bagwere but trace their origin from Tanzania and Zambia.