Its district headquarters were at Ogembo which houses more than a thousand residents, (people who live in the center of the town), with more than one thousand people more that visit it each day.
Apart from numerous small family plantations, there are large sugar cane fields.
The population is mostly Gusii, but the district borders Maasai land at southeast.
The district had three constituencies: South Mugirango, Bomachoge and Bobasi.
In 2010, the district was eliminated and merged into Kisii County.