Street food vendors (SFV) are essential in providing jobs and reasonably priced meal alternatives, especially for those from poor socioeconomic backgrounds. However, due to the possibility of contamination, there is a significant risk to public health from the microbiological safety of foods sold on the street. The purpose of the research was to evaluate the safety and microbiological quality of meals sold on the streets in cities. Socioeconomic data were collected through structured questionnaires, while microbial analysis was conducted on 320 ready-to-eat (RTE) food samples from multiple vending sites. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 26. While inferential statistics, such as One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), were utilized to compare microbial counts across various food categories, descriptive statistics were utilized to characterize vendor characteristics and microbiological counts. The association between vendor practices (such as hand hygiene and using clean water) and microbiological contamination was investigated using chi-square testing. The findings showed that microbial counts showed the presence of aerobic mesophilic bacteria (5.2 ± 0.6), lactic acid bacteria (4.3 ± 0.5), Enterobacteriaceae (4.1 ± 0.7), Staphylococcus spp. (5.16±1.3), Escherichia coli (3.9 ± 0.5), Salmonella spp. (3.6 ± 0.4), and Pseudomonas spp. (2.8 ± 0.3). These findings demonstrate the low microbiological quality of street food and the need for enhanced safety protocols and public health campaigns in urban street food vending