[1] It is approximately 54 kilometres (34 mi), by road, southeast of Soroti, the largest town in the Teso sub-region[2] Kumi is about 250 kilometres (160 mi), by road, northeast of Kampala, the capital of Uganda and its largest city.

[4] The national census in 2002 estimated the population of the town of Kumi at 8,800.

In 2010, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) estimated the population at 12,500.

[5] In 2014, the national population census and household survey enumerated the population of Kumi Town at 36,493 people, of whom 18,690 (51.2 percent) were female and 17,803 (48.8 percent) were male.

[6] The following additional points of interest lie within the town limits or close to the edges of town: (a) offices of Kumi Town Council (b) Kumi central market (c) Atutur General Hospital, a 200-bed public hospital, administered by the Uganda Ministry of Health (d) main campus of Kumi University, a private institution of tertiary education and located about 8 kilometres (5 mi) west of the town's central business district[7] and (e) Tororo-Mbale-Soroti Road, passing through town in a southeastern to northwestern direction.