The commonly spoken languages in the area are Hausa and the Fufulde while the religions of Islam and Christianity are widely practiced in Jamaare.

It is made up of a number of towns and villages which include Dogon, Jeji, Hanafari, Galdimari and Jurara.

Traditionally founded in 1811 by Muhammadu Wabi I, a leader in the Fulani jihad (holy war) led by Usman dan Fodio, the emirate was not officially recognized until 1835, when Sambolei, the chief of the Jama’are Fulani, was rewarded with it for his aid against the Hausa rebels of Katsina by Muḥammad Bello, the sarkin musulmi (“commander of the faithful”) and sultan of Sokoto.

The popular Jamaare river flows through the LGA with average humidity level of the area put at 41 percent.

Other important economic enterprises undertaken by the people of Jamaare are trade, hunting, and the weaving and dyeing of cotton.