Kadirli District is a socially and culturally developed district. The city follows innovations in every aspect and is open to development.

The basic elements that determine the social structure in the district are agriculture-based economy and blood ties. based on the traditional understanding of society. Recently, the district has been receiving immigration on the one hand and immigration on the other. This development also has a significant impact on the social structure.

Although the houses in the district are quite plain and simple structures, there have been significant developments in construction in recent years. , cooperatives and the number of multi-storey houses and apartments are increasing rapidly. Houses usually do not have a roof. Houses in the city center are generally made of briquettes, with a warehouse or workplace on the ground floor and residences on the upper floor.

Weddings, Although funeral ceremonies, Mawlid meetings, and the tradition of going to the plateau are the most common social activities, the number of cafes and internet cafes has also increased in recent years, as well as tea houses and coffee houses where deep conversations take place.

Municipality Sülamış Touristic Facilities and Kızyusuflu Water Sports Center in the district have the comfort of a multi-star hotel and are suitable for all kinds of sports activities and meetings. The hiking trails in the Sülamış and Muallimbağı forests in the city center continue to be the focus of attention of citizens from all walks of life. Travel outside the district is limited. Closed economy and traditional village-type life dominate here. Although the mountain villages are poorer, the plain villages, where intensive agriculture has been carried out on irrigated lands in recent years, are richer. However, in all villages, in addition to telephone and transportation convenience, almost all houses have access to television and satellite broadcasting.

Business and working life were based primarily on agricultural activities, then civil servants, tradesmen and merchants. There are a large number of civil servants in the industrially developing district, and most of them are local.