Health issues associated to pregnancy and delivery can have a significant impact on the mother, the child, the family, and the community.The delivery of a child without receiving a proper treatment is one of the biggest public health issues. India has been diligently striving to promote institutional delivery through community wide programmes with various beneficiary schemes for pregnant woman. The place of delivery could influence the outcome of labour and child birth hence it is very vital that a woman makes the right decision as regard with the place of delivery to safeguard both her and the wellbeing of her child. Thus, the present study was undertaken with the aims to assess the factors influencing the place of delivery. METHOD: The study design was cross sectional exploratory descriptive study. A community based study was conducted in Diezephe, where a total of 77 samples were collected using convenient sampling technique. RESULT: Our study results shows that out of 77 samples collected 79% had home delivery with 30% stating – I delivered my previous baby at home, as the most common reason, 21% had institutional delivery with 19% stating – institutional delivery is safe for me and my child. There was a significant association between factors influencing the place of delivery with Age (OR-3.18, CI-1.01-9.94, P value-0.042), Education of mother (OR-1.44, CI-1.20-1.73 , P value-0.002) Education of husband(OR-1.43 , CI-1.20-1.71 , P value - 0.002 ) , Family income (OR-8.25 , CI-1.73-39.45 , P value -0.003), Religion (OR-10.79 , CI-2.24-51.77 , P value-0.001) and Number of ANC visits(OR-12.71,CI-3.56-45.35 , P value- 000) . CONCLUSION: The study findings unveiled a number of factors influencing the place of delivery. Therefore, the study can be taken as guidelines by health care policy maker and necessary steps can be taken to proactively motivate mothers from their first ANC visit onwards.