Ait Ishaq
آيت إسحاق
Rural commune in the cercle of El Kbab, province of Khénifra, Béni Mellal-Khénifra.
- Population, 2024
- 17,847
- Since 2014
- −6.7%from 19,133 in 2014
- Density
- 62.3people per km², 286.5 km²
- Households
- 4,975
- Foreign residents
- 4
- Rank
- 357357th most populous of 1,503 communes4th of 22 in its province
Next door in Ait Oum El Bekht, 2.7% of households are on the public sewer. Here, it’s 71.7%.
Since 2014, households with electricity went from 80.2% to 97.5%. Across Morocco, the rise was 6 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Itzer. Household size: 3.6 here, 3.6 there; read French: 60.0% here, 63.3% there; aged 65 and over: 11.9% here, 11.0% there.
Where it is
Its province, shaded by density, and where that sits in Morocco.
Bordering communes
Postcode
54103
How it changed
Every commune, by how much it grew or shrank between the censuses. The line is Ait Ishaq.
Ait Ishaq −6.7%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 40.7%aged 10 and over46.9% in 201449.2% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 13.7%13.7% in 201421.7% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 32.6%aged 15 and over42.2% in 20148.5% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 96.3%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.57children per woman1.84 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 5.7%of people7.5% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 3.6people on average4.1 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 71.8%of settled households69.0% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.7% | 75 and over | 4.5% | ||
| 3.3% | 70–74 | 3.3% | ||
| 4.2% | 65–69 | 3.9% | ||
| 5.7% | 60–64 | 5.9% | ||
| 5.1% | 55–59 | 6.1% | ||
| 5.6% | 50–54 | 6.0% | ||
| 6.6% | 45–49 | 7.4% | ||
| 7.0% | 40–44 | 7.0% | ||
| 6.7% | 35–39 | 6.8% | ||
| 6.0% | 30–34 | 7.0% | ||
| 5.9% | 25–29 | 6.1% | ||
| 6.5% | 20–24 | 6.3% | ||
| 7.8% | 15–19 | 7.0% | ||
| 9.9% | 10–14 | 8.4% | ||
| 8.4% | 5–9 | 8.0% | ||
| 6.7% | 0–4 | 6.3% | ||
Local languages used
Many people use more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
More census figures
Languages read and written
By those aged 10 and over who can read.
Getting to work
How employed people get to work.
- Can’t read or write
- 46.9%aged 10 and over40.7% in 202455.9% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 13.7%13.7% in 202423.5% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 42.2%aged 15 and over32.6% in 202414.6% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 93.9%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.84children per woman1.57 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 7.5%of people5.7% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.1people on average3.6 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 69.0%of settled households71.8% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8% | 75 and over | 3.6% | ||
| 2.2% | 70–74 | 2.1% | ||
| 2.4% | 65–69 | 2.4% | ||
| 3.9% | 60–64 | 3.4% | ||
| 4.1% | 55–59 | 4.2% | ||
| 5.3% | 50–54 | 6.1% | ||
| 5.2% | 45–49 | 6.4% | ||
| 5.6% | 40–44 | 7.0% | ||
| 6.9% | 35–39 | 7.5% | ||
| 7.6% | 30–34 | 7.6% | ||
| 7.8% | 25–29 | 7.8% | ||
| 9.4% | 20–24 | 9.0% | ||
| 9.5% | 15–19 | 9.5% | ||
| 9.1% | 10–14 | 8.0% | ||
| 7.9% | 5–9 | 7.3% | ||
| 9.3% | 0–4 | 8.2% | ||
Local languages used
Many people use more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
More census figures
Languages read and written
Each person who can read counts once, under what they read and write.
Getting to work
How employed people get to work.
Where people work
Where employed people work, asked in 2014.
What people did
The work employed people did in 2014. The 2024 census doesn’t publish this by commune.
Highest diploma
What people aged 10 and over had qualified in by 2014, in general education. Vocational training is counted apart.
Urban dwellings
The 2024 census counted the dwellings in Ait Ishaq’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 4,470
- Standing empty
- 23.2%13.8% vacant9.4% a second home
- Precarious
- 0.5%0.2% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 97.4%97.3% on the water mains96.7% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 0.4%households short, against the sound stock
More dwelling figures
What kind they are
Every dwelling in the town, lived in or not.
How old they are
When the dwelling was built.
Business and jobs
Every establishment the census mapped, and the businesses among them. What each count covers · Glossary
- Establishments
- 63935.8 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 50679.2% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 7191.4 per business
- Public services
- 120
- Associations
- 13in premises of their own
- Weekly souks
- 1counted outside the total
More business figures
Businesses by sector
Every sector but agriculture.
Businesses by the people they employ
By how many people work there.
When the businesses were founded
The year the business was set up.
Urban centres
Towns inside the commune that the census counts on their own.
| Ait Ishaq | 11,832 |
Douars
Ait Ishaq’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 15 douars in 4 fractions, with 6,015 people. Another 11,832 live in Ait Ishaq, its urban centre, which has no douars. What each figure counts
| Douar | Kind | Households | People | Distance from home, km | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paved road | Primary school | Health centre | ||||
| أيت اتنماستAit Atenmast5 douars · 2,517 people | ||||||
| أيت امحندAït Mehand | Dispersed | 93 | 390 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 25.2 |
| أيت حموAit Hammou | Dispersed | 117 | 467 | 5.9 | 3.7 | 16.2 |
| أيت بوريدوAït bou Ridou | Dispersed | 81 | 361 | 5.7 | 3.6 | 18.4 |
| أيت سيدي اسعيدAit Sidi Said | Dispersed | 156 | 706 | 8.4 | 3.7 | 23.4 |
| إزروالAzeroual | Dispersed | 153 | 593 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 20.7 |
| ايت اسماعيلAit Smail2 douars · 735 people | ||||||
| أيت شعوAit Chaou | Dispersed | 101 | 385 | 2.3 | 3.2 | 8.6 |
| أيت عبيAit Abi | Dispersed | 87 | 350 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 9.3 |
| ازضوضنAzdouden5 douars · 1,209 people | ||||||
| أيت بوتاغاطAït bou Tarhat | Dispersed | 38 | 160 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 9.3 |
| إيݣورانIgourane | Dispersed | 6 | 20 | — | — | — |
| أيت زكياتAit Zakiyat | Dispersed | 89 | 420 | 0.2 | 2.3 | 5.0 |
| أيت داودAit Daoud | Dispersed | 40 | 191 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 |
| أيت عثمانAit Athmane | Dispersed | 116 | 418 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 2.4 |
| أيت واقةAit Ouaka3 douars · 1,554 people | ||||||
| أيت بوبراهيمAit Boubrahim | Dispersed | 222 | 776 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 8.1 |
| أيت عيسيAit Issi | Dispersed | 109 | 491 | 5.7 | 3.2 | 9.6 |
| أيت ملالAit Mellal | Dispersed | 69 | 287 | 3.6 | 1.9 | 8.0 |
Names in italics are spelt from the Arabic. How douars get their names
— HCP doesn’t publish the figures of a douar with fewer than 30 households.
In the data
Files and code
- Code
05.301.03.01- As digits
053010301- Slug
ait-ishaq- Census figures
/api/communes/05.301.03.01/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/05.301.03.01/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/05.301.03.01/housing.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/05.301.03.01/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/05.301.03.01/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2826613
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("ait-ishaq");