Its a low income area located 17KM west of the CBD sitting between Lavington and Dagoretti.
Once mainly a sprawling city of corrugated tin and mud and scraps of wood and fabric fashioned into makeshift homes, it has lately been transitioning into a lower middle class place.
Rents in the upcoming apartment blocks remain relatively low thus it has been able to attract many singles or young couples on there 1st jobs wishing to be close to the city and westlands.
Kawangware has a scarcity of safe drinking water as water supplied by the city authority is not available every day or is otherwise expensive. The area has a high rate of unemployment among the original residents with most of its inhabitants being self employed small scale traders.
Whereas currently their a diversity of ethnicity, certain localities within like one named Congo is said to have a large Luhya Community.