Located in Muhos is the Pyhäkoski hydro-electric power plant which was commissioned in 1949 and has the highest fall in Finland (32.4 m).

There are eight daily passenger trains, four each way, serving the community at Muhos railway station.

[citation needed] The members of the parliament elected from Muhos have been Pirkko Mattila (True Finns 2011-), Ester Häikiö[5] (Finnish People's Democratic League 1951-1954) and Aaro Kauppi[6] (Agrarian League 1951–1954, 1956–1958 and 1963–1966, renamed as Centre Party 1965-1966) and Yrjö Kesti[7] (Small Farmers' Party of Finland 1930–1936).

During the great depression of the 1930s Muhos was one of the municipalities where the deficiency movements (pulaliikkeet, singular pulaliike) started to organise as critique to the cabinet parties.

Some parts of the deficiency movement was financed moderately by the Communist Party of Finland as its activities were forbidden by law in (1930–1944) to the end of the continuation war.