[1] Yumbe is approximately 91 kilometres (57 mi), by road, northeast of Arua, the largest city in the West Nile sub-region.

[2] Yumbe is approximately 223 kilometres (139 mi), by road, northwest of Gulu, the largest city in the Northern Region of Uganda.

In 2020, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) estimated the mid-year population of Yumbe Town at 47,400.

UBOS calculated that the population of Yumbe Town Council increased at an average annual rate of 5.5 percent, between 2014 and 2020.

In 2020, the International Development Association (IDA), a member of the World Bank Group provided a grant of US$130.8 million to upgrade this road to class II bitumen surface, with shoulders, culverts and drainage channels.