[1] The SNNPR's Bureau of Finance and Economic Development, adds that as of 2003[update] Welkite also had a bank branch and other financial institutions, as well as a hospital.

Following a fertilizer demonstration by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization in 1969, the colonel decided to introduce modernized farming.

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency, this town has a total population of 28,866, of whom 15,074 are men and 13,792 women.

The plurality of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity with 48.17% of the population reporting that belief, while 42.31% were Muslim, 7.86% were Protestants, and 1.34% were Catholic.

In the villages around Welkite there are believed to be about 1,000 speakers of Gumuz language, who are a Nilo-Saharan people whose homeland straddles between Ethiopia and Sudan.