Epworth, Zimbabwe

Epworth is a high density dormitory town in Harare Province, Zimbabwe, about twelve kilometres east of central Harare, run by the Epworth Local Board and divided into seven wards. A Methodist mission station was set up there in 1890, and its population exploded in the late 1970s and 1980s as informal settlements grew, from 20,000 in 1980 to 113,884 in 2002. The government chose to upgrade rather than demolish the settlement, and the Local Board was formed in 1986. The Balancing Rocks in its northern approaches appear on the bank notes of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. The 2022 census counted 206,368 people.