[3] This is approximately 106 kilometres (66 mi), by road, southwest of Mbale, the largest city in the Eastern Region of Uganda.

[5] Lying on the main highway between Kampala and the border towns of Malaba and Busia, Bugiri experiences a lot of automotive traffic carrying passengers and goods wholly within Uganda and to Rwanda, Burundi, and parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

[6] The town is also known as a home of rice growing and processing company Tilda Uganda and its booming sex-trade, particularly in its suburb of Naluwerere.

In 2020, UBOS estimated the mid-year population of Bugiri at 36,000 people.

The agency calculated the estimated population growth rate in the town to average 3.92 percent annually, between 2014 and 2020.