According to the 1980 housing census, there were 10,900 houses in Musakhel. The average household size was 8.4. There is no data available on housing in Musakhel. Data on Loralai district include Musakhel, but figures are cumulative. According to personal observation, most of the people live in huts or single-room houses with a boundary wall made of stones or just wild shrubs.

No data is available on tenure of houses. Almost all of the houses are occupied by the owners while only a few shops have been rented out in the towns.

No significant change can be observed in the construction material used for buildings. Still mud and un-baked bricks are used for the construction of houses. Many people live in huts. The walls of these huts are made of stones and the roofs are made of mazri or mats shrubs. Some government buildings are made of baked bricks. Roofs in such buildings are constructed using RCC or iron girders and kiln bricks or tiles.

Kerosene oil lamps are used in most of the houses as source of energy for light. In Kingri electricity is supplied regularly, but all other areas of Musakhel do not have this facility. A very few people have diesel generators to produce electricity by their own. In Musakhel district, a total of 442 electric supply connections were provided up to December 1996, all of which were domestic connections

Cooking is done by using fuel wood and dung cakes. The woodlands of the district provide enough fuel wood for the population and livestock along with the other major source of energy in the form of dung. There is no liquefied petroleum gas agency in the whole of Musakhel. Fuel wood is collected by men, women, and children.

In the absence of any data on housing characteristics it is difficult to give an accurate account of housing in Musakhel. However, according to observation most of the houses were without separate kitchen and bathroom facilities. Latrines are not available in most of the houses and flush system latrines are a rare exemption. Most of the houses are single-room units and many a people live in hut type structures.

To date, the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) has completed 18 water supply schemes in Musakhel, out of which one third (6) are not functional. Only 8.3 percent of the population has access to safe drinking water through these schemes. The rest of the population uses water from open surface wells, streams and springs. In 4 water supply schemes, drinking water is supplied to the houses through pipelines and house connections, and in others community tanks have been constructed at central places from where people fetch water. In case the source of drinking water is not located inside the house, it is usually the duty of women and children to fetch water for household needs.

The Water and Sanitation Section of the Local Government and Rural Development Department (LG&RDD) has installed some deep well hand pumps (on open surface wells) for drinking water in Musakhel. No sewerage and solid waste disposal system exists in the district.

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