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12 districts · rank 9 of 16 by population

Bono Region

Bono holds 3.9% of Ghana's people on 12k km², administered from Sunyani. 9 of its 12 assemblies have a current development plan on file.

People, 2021 censusregion

1.2m

3.9% of Ghana

People per km²region

103

19% below Ghana's figure (128)

Housing and utilities inflation

6.8%

year on year, Jan 2026 · Ghana 9.3%

Districts with a current plan

9 of 12

Demand

Who is here, and how many

The districts of Bono, ranked

Population (2021 census). UNFPA / Ghana Statistical Service (COD-PS, 2021 Population and Housing Census), 2021. Click a district to open it.

Who is here

Bono RegionGhana's figure, or the median regionthe middle half of regionslowest to highest in Ghana
IndicatorValueAgainst Ghanavs GhanaSource
Population (2021 census)regionPublished regional figure, not a sum of districts.1,208,6494% below the median region. Ghana's 16 regions run from 564,668 to 5,455,692, the middle half 847,503 to 2,448,160.565k5456k
Population (2020 estimate)modelledModelled; use for distribution, not as a count.1,156,9663% below the median region. Ghana's 16 regions run from 605,197 to 6,755,321, the middle half 814,126 to 2,413,663.605k6755k
Share of Ghana's people3.9%0.1 points below the median region. Ghana's 16 regions run from 1.8% to 18%, the middle half 2.8% to 8.0%.1.818
Population growth 2010–20212.2% a year0.2 points above Ghana's figure. Ghana's 16 regions run from 1.0% a year to 3.5% a year, the middle half 1.6% a year to 2.5% a year.1.03.5+0.2 pts
Land area (km²)region11,6963% above the median region. Ghana's 16 regions run from 3,716 to 36,012, the middle half 9,557 to 20,172.3,71636k
People per km² (2021 census)region10319% below Ghana's figure. Ghana's 16 regions run from 18 to 1,468, the middle half 71 to 157, on a log axis.181,468−19%
Dependency ratio (dependants per 100 aged 15-64)region634% below Ghana's figure. Ghana's 16 regions run from 50 to 95, the middle half 64 to 79.5095−4%
Sex ratio (males per 100 females)region98About the same as Ghana's figure. Ghana's 16 regions run from 91 to 105, the middle half 96 to 101.91105
Named localitiesproxyGazetteer coverage, not a settlement count.7246% below the median region. Ghana's 16 regions run from 101 to 3,496, the middle half 575 to 1,045, on a log axis.1013,496

The economy that pays the rent

What the place trades on

What Bono's districts say they trade on

Districts naming each sector as a leading sector in their own development plan, of 12. Plan-stated, not measured.

IndicatorValueAgainst Ghanavs GhanaSource
GDP per capita (national)nationalNational context only; no regional GDP is published.$3,257
What is not measured here

Establishment counts and poverty incidence are not published for any district or region. See “What we do not know yet” below.

Cost to build, cost to occupy

What building and housing cost

Housing CPI (region)

216

2021 = 100, Jan 2026

Housing CPI, Ghananational

329

2021 = 100, Jan 2026

Construction PPI, year on yearnational

0.9%

national, base 2020 = 100; no regional series

Housing and utilities prices, Bono against Ghana

Bono and Ghana100200300201620182020202220242026
  • Bono 216
  • Ghana 329

Consumer price index, housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, 2021 = 100, monthly 2015–Jan 2026. Ghana Statistical Service, StatsBank. Regional and national.

A district inside Bono carries the regional rate; no district price series exists. Rent and land evidence is listed under “What we do not know yet” below.

Getting there, getting served

Transport, power, water and connectivity

Ghana. Nothing on transport, power, water or connectivity is published for Bono Region itself; these are the national figures, with Sub-Saharan Africa and the World beside them.

Access to electricity
92% Sub-Saharan Africa 55%World 92%
Basic drinking water
90% Sub-Saharan Africa 68%World 92%
Internet users
72% Sub-Saharan Africa 34%World 71%
Logistics Performance Index
2.5 Sub-Saharan Africa 2.5World 3
Ghana's full infrastructure picture, with twenty-year charts

Where a regional spatial development framework exists it is listed in section 5; its transport and utility corridors are what a site analysis reads for a specific parcel. Night-time lights and business density are not measured yet: see “What we do not know yet” below.

Land, planning and what is permitted

What the statutory plan says

Plans on file

Bono RegionGhana's figure, or the median regionthe middle half of regionslowest to highest in Ghana
IndicatorValueAgainst Ghanavs GhanaSource
Districts with a plan held12 of 1226% above the median region. Ghana's 16 regions run from 0 to 40, the middle half 4 to 12.040
Districts with a current plan9 of 12Ghana's 16 regions run from 0 to 33, the middle half 0 to 9.033
Districts with extracted plan content11 of 1229% above the median region. Ghana's 16 regions run from 0 to 40, the middle half 4 to 11.040
Districts with a description12 of 1226% above the median region. Ghana's 16 regions run from 0 to 42, the middle half 4 to 12.042

12 of 12 districts have at least one medium-term development plan held by CAD; 9 have the current 2026–2029 cycle.

Spatial plans that apply

  • Ghana National Spatial Development Framework (NSDF)national · 2015-2035 · spatial development framework; SDF (executive summary)

Land Use and Spatial Planning Authority, catalogued by CAD. Sub-regional and local plans are listed only where their own text names districts in this region.

What a market study includes

Scope

  • Demand: who is in the catchment, from the 2021 census down to the localities around the site, with household formation for residential and the retail catchment for commercial.
  • The economy that pays the rent: the sectors, the establishments and the anchor employers around the site, from field survey and the assembly’s own records.
  • Cost to build and to occupy: dated, graded asking rents and land prices for the corridor, reconciled with the prime-market reports; build-cost benchmarks.
  • Land, planning and what is permitted: the statutory plan and the spatial framework read for the parcel, the stool or skin that holds the land, and the permit route through the assembly.
  • An underwritten view: absorption, rent and yield assumptions carried into a cash-flow model, with every input sourced and tiered.

Deliverables

  • A written site analysis with every figure sourced, dated and tiered, the same standard as this site.
  • The catchment map and the plan overlay as files you can reuse.
  • The underwriting model, with the assumptions sheet.
  • One working session to walk through the findings.

Ask for one with the button at the top of the page, or at the end of this page.

Who you have to deal with

The assembly, the region, the stool

IndicatorValueAgainst Ghanavs GhanaSource
Regional capitalregionSunyani
Assemblies by type0 metropolitan · 5 municipal · 7 district
  • Regional Minister appointedConstitution 1992 art. 256; Local Governance Act 2016 (Act 936) · chairs the Regional Coordinating Council

Traditional councils named in the region's plans

  • Odomase No.Inamed in the plans of Sunyani West
  • Awuah-DumaseSeat: Odumase · named in the plans of Sunyani West
  • Nsoatrenamed in the plans of Sunyani West
  • Fiaprenamed in the plans of Sunyani West
  • Dormaa Traditional CouncilSeat: Chiraa · named in the plans of Sunyani West
  • Wenchinamed in the plans of Wenchi Municipal
  • Nwoasenamed in the plans of Wenchi Municipal
  • Subinsonamed in the plans of Wenchi Municipal
  • Branamnamed in the plans of Wenchi Municipal
  • Nchiraanamed in the plans of Wenchi Municipal
  • Nafana Traditional CouncilSeat: Sampa · named in the plans of Jaman North
  • Suma Traditional CouncilSeat: Suma-Ahenkro · named in the plans of Jaman North
  • Kwatwoma Traditional CouncilSeat: Seketia · named in the plans of Jaman North
  • Drobo Traditional Councilnamed in the plans of Jaman South Municipal
  • Japekrom Traditional Councilnamed in the plans of Jaman South Municipal
  • Dwenemnamed in the plans of Jaman South Municipal
  • KwasibuokromSeat: Kwasibuokrom · named in the plans of Jaman South Municipal
  • GonosuaTwafoheneSeat: Gonosua · named in the plans of Jaman South Municipal
  • BabianihaGyaaseheneSeat: Babianiha · named in the plans of Jaman South Municipal
  • JinijiniSeat: Jinijini · named in the plans of Berekum West

As named by each assembly in its own development plan, with the page cited on the district page. Never a person; disputes are not adjudicated here. The Regional House of Chiefs is the authority on succession.

Parliamentary constituencies are not shown. The Electoral Commission's register carries no reuse licence, so CAD does not reproduce it. The assembly and the traditional council are shown because their sources allow it.

What we do not know yet

And what we can measure for you

What the district pages do not yet show, and why. Some of it the Ghana Statistical Service publishes and this site has not yet taken in; some of it CAD derives; some of it nobody in Ghana publishes at all.

Not yet on this site

Published by the Ghana Statistical Service for every district (the 2021 census tables, the business establishment survey, the poverty map) and not yet on this site.

  • Labour and employment 3 indicators

    informal employment · labour-force participation · unemployment rate

  • Poverty and business counts 3 indicators

    business establishments by sector · business establishments · poverty incidence

  • Housing stock and tenure 1 indicators

    housing stock

Derived by CAD for a catchment

Derived by CAD from open geodata for a catchment; no agency publishes it per district.

  • Infrastructure and activity proxies

    night-time lights (activity proxy) · points of interest per km² (activity proxy)

  • Housing stock and tenure

    building footprints

Not published anywhere, measured by CAD on site

Not published anywhere in Ghana. CAD measures it on site.

  • Poverty and business counts

    anchor employers · largest companies

    How we close it. We map the establishments and anchor employers around a site from field survey and the assembly's own records, and read poverty from the census small-area estimates.

  • Land and rent evidence

    land prices · prime office rents · residential asking rents

    How we close it. We collect asking rents and land prices for the corridor, dated and graded, and reconcile them with the prime-market reports. No transaction register exists in Ghana; every figure says what it is.

The public data on this page is free; detailed industry scores come with CAD Complete. The analysis is the service: a demand study, a catchment, rent and land evidence collected for your site, the plan and the stool read for what they permit, and an underwritten view of whether it works.

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