Aourir
أورير
Rural commune in the cercle of Agadir Atlantique, préfecture of Agadir-Ida-Ou-Tanane, Souss-Massa.
- Population, 2024
- 46,032
- Since 2014
- +24.6%from 36,948 in 2014
- Density
- 436people per km², 105.7 km²
- Households
- 11,696
- Foreign residents
- 255
- Rank
- 113113th most populous of 1,503 communes3rd of 13 in its préfecture
Next door in Aqsri, 2.1% of households are on the public sewer. Here, it’s 74.5%.
Since 2014, households on the public sewer went from 0.5% to 74.5%. Across Morocco, the rise was 7 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Imintanoute. Running water: 94.0% here, 97.3% there; aged 65 and over: 7.1% here, 7.7% there; household size: 3.9 here, 3.9 there.
One of 50 communes where at least 0.5% of residents are foreign.
Where it is
Its préfecture, 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 Aourir.
Aourir +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
- 21.2%aged 10 and over27.1% in 201429.9% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 16.5%15.2% in 201428.2% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 41.3%aged 15 and over44.0% in 201412.9% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 97.1%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.93children per woman2.13 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 2.9%of people4.4% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 3.9people on average4.5 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 94.0%of settled households72.3% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2% | 75 and over | 2.4% | ||
| 2.0% | 70–74 | 1.8% | ||
| 3.3% | 65–69 | 2.4% | ||
| 4.7% | 60–64 | 3.9% | ||
| 5.0% | 55–59 | 4.7% | ||
| 6.0% | 50–54 | 6.0% | ||
| 6.3% | 45–49 | 6.7% | ||
| 6.6% | 40–44 | 7.1% | ||
| 7.3% | 35–39 | 7.4% | ||
| 7.5% | 30–34 | 7.7% | ||
| 7.4% | 25–29 | 7.6% | ||
| 8.3% | 20–24 | 8.6% | ||
| 8.1% | 15–19 | 8.4% | ||
| 9.3% | 10–14 | 9.3% | ||
| 8.5% | 5–9 | 9.0% | ||
| 7.5% | 0–4 | 7.0% | ||
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
- 27.1%aged 10 and over21.2% in 202438.4% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 15.2%16.5% in 202436.3% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 44.0%aged 15 and over41.3% in 202412.3% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 98.0%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.13children per woman1.93 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.4%of people2.9% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.5people on average3.9 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 72.3%of settled households94.0% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8% | 75 and over | 1.8% | ||
| 1.2% | 70–74 | 1.3% | ||
| 1.7% | 65–69 | 1.5% | ||
| 3.0% | 60–64 | 2.6% | ||
| 4.1% | 55–59 | 3.1% | ||
| 5.8% | 50–54 | 4.8% | ||
| 6.2% | 45–49 | 5.7% | ||
| 7.3% | 40–44 | 7.1% | ||
| 7.2% | 35–39 | 7.8% | ||
| 7.0% | 30–34 | 8.3% | ||
| 8.0% | 25–29 | 8.5% | ||
| 8.9% | 20–24 | 9.5% | ||
| 9.0% | 15–19 | 9.3% | ||
| 9.9% | 10–14 | 9.9% | ||
| 9.3% | 5–9 | 9.3% | ||
| 9.7% | 0–4 | 9.6% | ||
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 Aourir’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 16,471
- Standing empty
- 34.3%14.5% vacant19.9% a second home
- Precarious
- 0.7%0.4% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 73.7%89.7% on the water mains92.9% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 1.4%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
- 1,48932.3 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 1,28686.4% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 3,1032.4 per business
- Public services
- 113
- Associations
- 90in 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.
| Aourir | 44,406 |
Douars
Aourir’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 10 douars in 2 fractions, with 1,424 people. Another 44,406 live in Aourir, its urban centre, which has no douars. 202 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 | ||||
| تمروت ابروطنTamroute Ibroutne4 douars · 328 people | ||||||
| تمروت ابروطنTamroute Ibroutne | In parts | 38 | 175 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 7.3 |
| تمزايتTamzayte | In parts | 14 | 48 | — | — | — |
| تكاديرت نموسىTagadirt N'Moussa | In parts | 22 | 67 | — | — | — |
| إكورضانIgourdan | In parts | 15 | 38 | — | — | — |
| ألماAlma6 douars · 1,096 people | ||||||
| ألماAlma | In parts | 205 | 689 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 8.7 |
| تكاديرت أوفلاTagadirt Ou Fella | Grouped | 13 | 54 | — | — | — |
| أيت محندAit Mhand | Dispersed | 61 | 242 | 6.9 | 1.3 | 11.0 |
| تمزلاضTimzlad | In parts | 16 | 59 | — | — | — |
| تهنوتTahanoute | Grouped | 13 | 36 | — | — | — |
| أنزاضAnzade | In parts | 6 | 16 | — | — | — |
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
09.001.07.03- As digits
090010703- Slug
aourir- Census figures
/api/communes/09.001.07.03/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/09.001.07.03/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/09.001.07.03/housing.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/09.001.07.03/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/09.001.07.03/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2758263
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("aourir");