Introduction: Obesity has emerged as the most prevalent serious public health problem. It is a complex disorder, which is a determinant to good health and well being. It is the most common nutritional disorder among the higher socio economic group in developing and developed countries. Obesity is becoming most prevalence health problem worldwide in most of the populations, affecting children, adolescents, adults and specially housewives or women. Methodology: A quantitative research approach and cross sectional descriptive survey was used. A total number of 60 samples were selected by the purposive sampling technique. The data was collected using structured questionnaires developed by the researcher. Results: The results found that out of 60 subjects, 24 (40%) had over weight level of obesity and in respect of their level of knowledge, 43(71.7%) of them were adequate level of knowledge. There was statistically (p< 0.05 ) significant association between the level of obesity with associative factors as sleeping hours in night time and performing exercise daily and highly significant (p< 0.001)with physical activity. There was statistically significant association between the level of obesity with demographic variables as educational status (p< 0.05), and highly significant (p< 0.001) with economic status and number of children. Conclusion: Obesity is one of the risk factors for the non communicable diseases. Creating awareness regarding the complications of obesity decreases the mortality due to non communicable diseases. Therefore the findings of the study revealed that the prevalence of obesity among housewives and increasing the level of knowledge among housewives regarding the obesity reduce the risk of complications of obesity.