A warm welcome to Chitambo Town Council website, a platform created to give you our valued and esteemed public the opportunity to interact with us, as well as to ensure that information on services and opportunities available in chitambo District is made available and easily accessible by you the general public.

Chitambo Town Council, established on December 6, 2012, stands among the recently formed councils nationwide. Its inception aimed to optimize and elevate the delivery of local authority services within the province. Formerly under Serenje Council, it now operates as a vital entity within the councils of Central Province.

The township boundary accommodates land, which is approximately 30,000 hectares. The boundary houses the administrative centre of the district, which is located along Serenje/Samfya road, 10 kilometres from Mukando turnoff.

The District lies between latitude 12˚ 00” and 13˚ 15”South of the equator and between 29˚45” and 31˚00” East of the Greenwich Meridian. The district shares borders with Lavushimanda in the North, Serenje in the South and East, and Milenge in the West and Samfya in the North West and is about 357km north of Kabwe, the Provincial headquarters along the Great North road. Besides sharing the boarders with other districts, Chitambo district shares boarders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The district has nine wards namely: Chitambo, Muchinka, Chalilo, Mpelembe, Luombwa, Chipundu, Lusenga, Nakatambo and Lulimala. Surrounding the district are three rivers; Luapula, Mulembo and Luombwa rivers which are important sources of water to humans and animals as well as fishing activities.

According to the 2010 CSO Census Report Chitambo District has an extrapolated population of 48,861 people in 2010 with an Annual Population Growth Rate of 2.3%. Out of this population, 24,051 representing 49.2% of the total population were male and 24,810 representing 50.8% of the total population were female.

Traditional leadership has an extent of influence within its areas of jurisdiction although this is more apparent among tribal lines. The main ethnic groupings are the Lalas, Bisas and Swakas traditionally under chiefdoms such as Chief Chitambo and Chief Muchinka. Lala tribe is the only indigenous and most prominent tribal group found in the district. Bemba is another language mostly spoken in the area.