KATAKO MARKET Jos

Name: KATAKO MARKET Jos
Address: Jos, Plateau, Nigeria
Telephone: 0806 092 3432

3.9(904 Google reviews)

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Sources and dates

Listing source: Google Places; record fetched 21 September 2026.
6 Google rating/review records held, 6 with written text; newest published 25 June 2026.
Review records fetched 4 September 2026.
Stored review analysis updated 29 May 2026.
Ranking computed 23 September 2026.

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What our review analysis found

A major grain and building materials hub but plagued by poor traffic and extortion.

poor traffic
no parking
extortion
variety of goods
poor structure
police station

Stored review sentiment: Mixed.

Analysis updated 29 May 2026. This summarises Google review text, not a recent visit or confirmation of services. The excerpts below may differ from the reviews used for that analysis.

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Why this is ranked #1 in Markets in Jos

These are the six stored score components for this business. The current list also checks category and location evidence; nearby entries are labelled separately. Paid placement is not a score component.

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Composite score 71.0 of 100

Google rating69
Review volume99
Review recency78
Profile completeness67
Review sentiment43
Verification0

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About

KATAKO MARKET Jos is one of the markets in Jos, located at WVVH+86R, Jos 930105, Plateau, Nigeria. Its recorded Google rating is 3.9 stars from 904 reviews.

Google ratings and review excerpts

Jibade A.3 months ago
4.0 out of 5 stars
You can get quality combat trousers and the prices are reasonable
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Tofunmi A.10 months ago
1.0 out of 5 stars
I only rated this one star because it's the lowest I could give, it's a horrible place with a horrible experience for those unfortunate enough to find themselves there. With no parking space, horrible traffic on an already narrow road, with old men waiting to extort from you…
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Muhammad Z.11 months ago
2.0 out of 5 stars
This market has variety of categories of things to shop. From wholesale bale clothing to plumbing materials to food stuff and even a trailer park. The market is poorly structured and needs serious attention, modernisation in line with current realities.
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Amos M.11 months ago
4.0 out of 5 stars
Central market for kitchen, cleaning, building materials secondhand clothes etc
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Emmanuel N.1 year ago
3.0 out of 5 stars
This market is essentially for grains such as rice, beans, soya beans, millets, etc. Although it also house other places for buying things like dried fish, woods, animal feeds, thrift clothes, plastic items, etc. It have a police station making it a little beat safe for buyers…
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AAAtang6 years ago
4.0 out of 5 stars
Think timber, foodstuffs and grains, household items and plastics, clothing and accessories and animal feeds then, don't think further from the popular Katako market in Laranto, Jos
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