About 65% of the population of the county are Shia Azerbaijanis and 35% are Sunni Kurds.
Population
At the time of the 2006 census, the county's population was 81,395 in 17,618 households. The following census in 2011 counted 78,122 people in 20,184 households. At the 2016 census, the population was 80,556 in 23,482 households.