It serves as a collecting point for vegetables, peanuts (groundnuts), cotton, and corn (maize) and as a local trade centre for the sorghum, millet, cowpeas, cassava (manioc), goats, cattle, sheep, fowl, and cotton raised by the Fulani, Tangale, and Hausa peoples of the surrounding area.The secondary highway between Gombe and Yola serves the town.

[1][2] As a growing city, kumo has been slowly expanding with the establishment of various learning institutions and road networks that place the town at an advantageous end.

[11] Kumo, situated at an altitude of zero meters (0 feet) above sea level, experiences a Tropical wet and dry or savanna climate, classified as Aw.

Kumo typically receives approximately 68.03 millimeters (2.68 inches) of rainfall spread across 97.97 rainy days per year, accounting for 26.84% of the total time.

[12][13][14][15] 12 February through 23 April, which is 2.3 months, there is a hot season with daily high temperatures that typically exceed 96 degrees Fahrenheit.