Akhfennir
أخفنير
Rural commune in the cercle of Tarfaya, province of Tarfaya, Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra.
- Population, 2024
- 2,841
- Since 2014
- +24.6%from 2,280 in 2014
- Density
- 1people per km², 2,736.5 km²
- Households
- 822
- Foreign residents
- 18
- Rank
- 1,3911,391st most populous of 1,503 communes2nd of 5 in its province
Since 2014, households with electricity went from 84.5% to 98.0%. Across Morocco, the rise was 6 points.
Compare it with other communes
One of 50 communes where at least 0.5% of residents are foreign.
Where it is
Its province, shaded by density, and where that sits in Morocco.
How it changed
Every commune, by how much it grew or shrank between the censuses. The line is Akhfennir.
Akhfennir +24.6%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 23.9%aged 10 and over31.1% in 201431.0% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 7.7%7.1% in 201413.9% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 47.9%aged 15 and over54.4% in 201411.4% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 97.9%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.84children per woman3.75 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 2.1%of people3.1% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 3.5people on average3.7 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 91.5%of settled households78.3% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.3% | 75 and over | 1.5% | ||
| 2.0% | 70–74 | 1.5% | ||
| 2.7% | 65–69 | 3.0% | ||
| 4.2% | 60–64 | 2.5% | ||
| 4.8% | 55–59 | 3.1% | ||
| 5.9% | 50–54 | 4.1% | ||
| 5.6% | 45–49 | 5.9% | ||
| 7.7% | 40–44 | 6.7% | ||
| 7.8% | 35–39 | 8.2% | ||
| 7.4% | 30–34 | 8.5% | ||
| 8.8% | 25–29 | 8.1% | ||
| 7.1% | 20–24 | 8.8% | ||
| 7.0% | 15–19 | 7.2% | ||
| 7.9% | 10–14 | 9.4% | ||
| 10.8% | 5–9 | 10.8% | ||
| 9.1% | 0–4 | 10.8% | ||
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
- 31.1%aged 10 and over23.9% in 202443.4% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 7.1%7.7% in 202416.9% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 54.4%aged 15 and over47.9% in 202411.0% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 93.6%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 3.75children per woman2.84 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 3.1%of people2.1% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 3.7people on average3.5 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 78.3%of settled households91.5% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3% | 75 and over | 2.6% | ||
| 0.7% | 70–74 | 0.7% | ||
| 1.0% | 65–69 | 0.7% | ||
| 2.9% | 60–64 | 2.2% | ||
| 3.7% | 55–59 | 4.1% | ||
| 5.1% | 50–54 | 3.5% | ||
| 6.6% | 45–49 | 4.1% | ||
| 6.2% | 40–44 | 5.6% | ||
| 8.9% | 35–39 | 7.9% | ||
| 9.6% | 30–34 | 9.2% | ||
| 12.0% | 25–29 | 11.2% | ||
| 9.0% | 20–24 | 9.8% | ||
| 8.2% | 15–19 | 8.9% | ||
| 6.5% | 10–14 | 9.0% | ||
| 7.7% | 5–9 | 8.9% | ||
| 9.6% | 0–4 | 11.7% | ||
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.
Business and jobs
Every establishment the census mapped, and the businesses among them. What each count covers · Glossary
- Establishments
- 14551.0 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 12183.4% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 2832.3 per business
- Public services
- 21
- Associations
- 3in premises of their own
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.
Figures that stand out
The figures where this commune stands furthest from others, with its neighbours and 2014 beside each one.
The share of people who speak Hassania went from 53.6% in 2014 to 42.7% in 2024, a far bigger fall than in other communes.
Of the communes it borders, only Haouza can be compared: +5.2 points since 2014.
Across Morocco, it barely changed.
Among rural communes of under 5,000 people, it's in the top 10%.
Douars
Akhfennir’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 3 douars in 1 fraction, with 2,835 people. 6 more aren’t in any douar: nomads, or people HCP counts apart, such as soldiers in barracks. What each figure counts
| Douar | Kind | Households | People | Distance from home, km | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paved road | Primary school | Health centre | ||||
| أخفنبرAkhfenber3 douars · 2,835 people | ||||||
| أخفنبرAkhfenber | Grouped | 792 | 2,763 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| صبخة تازغةSbkhat Tazgha | Dispersed | 14 | 34 | — | — | — |
| النعيلةEnnaila | Dispersed | 13 | 38 | — | — | — |
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
11.537.05.01- As digits
115370501- Slug
akhfennir- Census figures
/api/communes/11.537.05.01/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/11.537.05.01/economy.json- Figures that stand out
/api/communes/11.537.05.01/insights.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/11.537.05.01/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/11.537.05.01/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2891051
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("akhfennir");