To plan and implement an inlegrated and sustainable wasre handling syslem for Ihe fUiurernassessing and distinguishing the most injluenlial socio- economic. demographic and physicalrnf acrors are very essential in the process of solid waste handling aparl Fom legal. inslilut;ol1alrnandfinancial aspects.rnThe curren! solid waste management system of the city is pOOl' and relied on getting ride of therntrash with very little attention paid ta waste prevention at the source and its recovery e./forts,rnwhich will result a miss guiding policy and a failure to design policy intervention on solidrnwaste managemenl ofa city.rnThus. in Arada, one of the sub-cities of Addis Ababa, 398 households were surveyed based onrnsystemaric random sampling and responded to designed questions which ask about their socioeconomic,rndemographic, ways of waste handling and disposal as well as interview wasrnadministered to expertise of solid waSle management al various levels.rnObtained data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistical lesls. Therndescriptive statistical leSIS like percentage and inferenlial statislical lests like bi- varialernanalysis ro show association and logistic regression analysis to rank and indicare Ihe slrenglhrno/,independent variables over dependent variable.rnAs frlr as the influence of the tested variables concerned household income, educational levelrnand location of community waste bins have signijicanl influence on waste handling. Higherrnincome groups of households showed belter waste handling practices than low income groups.rnLevel of education of househalds showed positive relation with solid waste handling. Locationrnand dislance of community waste bins have also direct impact on solid waste handling. Solidrnwaste handling habit of the community especially at the source is poor and feeble relationshiprn10 institutions. Finally household size showed neither positive nor negative relation with solidrnwaste handling. Thus, ro increase the consciousness of the community ahout solid waslernhandling upgrading educational level and linkage of institutions wilh communily-hoseurnorganization is needed.