The Zaghouan governorate has a population of 169,300 (as of January 2008). With a high schooling enrolment rate (92.7%) and a low urbanization rate (38.7%).

The following fields account for most of the workforce in employment: farming (22.4%), services (36.5%), and manufacturing (27.1%).

In addition, this governorate has 2 state vocational training centres, with a capacity of 560 students, offering courses in a variety of handicrafts.

Zaghouan is 60 minutes away from the Radès commercial port.

Zaghouan is renowned for the wealth of its water resources: it has 3 dams, 16 earthfill dams, 76 earthfill lakes, and a deep aquifer containing millions of cubic meters of groundwater.

Currently, the region is starting to industrialize with the establishment of 233 industrial enterprises (providing 10 or more jobs) and 82 foreign firms, of which 178 exclusively for export.

The region has a large farming area (271,000 hectares, of which 186,000 ha are tillable), which produces milk (17,000 liters/year), red meat (7,400 tons/year), olive oil and honey.

The region has a banking and financial network consisting of 14 agency representing Tunisia’s major financial institutions.