Zorzor's major ethnic groups include the Kpelle and Loma peoples.

The town also contains an American Lutheran church hospital, a leper colony, and a handicrafts workshop.

The Zozor Rural Teacher Training institute is located in the nearby town of Fisebu.

The city's first hospital was the aforementioned Lutheran facility, which was constructed in 1924; local residents were initially suspicious of Western medicinal practices, but they were ultimately convinced by thirty-one years of labor by Esther Bacon, an American nurse who worked at the hospital from 1941 until her 1972 death.

Mr.Augustine Aiyadurai from Schieffelin Institute of health - Research & Leprosy center, India was working as an administrator when he contracted a fatal illness and died on 3 August 2014.