Ben Ahmed
بن احمد
Urban commune in the province of Settat, Casablanca-Settat.
- Population, 2024
- 33,469
- Since 2014
- +1.1%from 33,105 in 2014
- Density
- 2,241people per km², 14.9 km²
- Households
- 8,161
- Foreign residents
- 33
- Rank
- 160160th most populous of 1,503 communes2nd of 46 in its province
Next door in Ain Dorbane-Lahlaf, 0.7% of households have running water. Here, it’s 85.1%.
Since 2014, households with running water went from 74.6% to 85.1%. Across Morocco, the rise was 10 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Mechraa Bel Ksiri. Higher education: 12.2% here, 11.0% there; can’t read or write: 22.0% here, 21.9% there; running water: 85.1% here, 98.5% there.
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 Ben Ahmed.
Ben Ahmed +1.1%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 22.0%aged 10 and over27.1% in 201429.8% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 23.0%20.2% in 201431.2% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 39.9%aged 15 and over45.9% in 201414.6% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 96.4%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.99children per woman2.16 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.5%of people4.7% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.1people on average4.5 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 85.1%of settled households74.6% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5% | 75 and over | 3.8% | ||
| 2.5% | 70–74 | 2.5% | ||
| 3.8% | 65–69 | 3.5% | ||
| 5.1% | 60–64 | 5.1% | ||
| 4.6% | 55–59 | 5.0% | ||
| 5.9% | 50–54 | 5.9% | ||
| 6.4% | 45–49 | 6.1% | ||
| 6.2% | 40–44 | 6.6% | ||
| 6.0% | 35–39 | 6.6% | ||
| 6.7% | 30–34 | 6.6% | ||
| 6.5% | 25–29 | 6.8% | ||
| 7.5% | 20–24 | 8.0% | ||
| 8.6% | 15–19 | 8.3% | ||
| 9.8% | 10–14 | 9.3% | ||
| 10.0% | 5–9 | 8.7% | ||
| 7.9% | 0–4 | 7.3% | ||
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
- 27.1%aged 10 and over22.0% in 202437.3% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 20.2%23.0% in 202437.3% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 45.9%aged 15 and over39.9% in 202418.6% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 97.4%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.16children per woman1.99 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.7%of people4.5% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.5people on average4.1 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 74.6%of settled households85.1% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1% | 75 and over | 2.8% | ||
| 1.4% | 70–74 | 1.7% | ||
| 1.6% | 65–69 | 2.1% | ||
| 3.4% | 60–64 | 3.2% | ||
| 4.6% | 55–59 | 3.8% | ||
| 5.8% | 50–54 | 5.9% | ||
| 5.6% | 45–49 | 6.0% | ||
| 6.5% | 40–44 | 6.9% | ||
| 7.2% | 35–39 | 7.4% | ||
| 7.0% | 30–34 | 7.5% | ||
| 7.3% | 25–29 | 7.4% | ||
| 8.9% | 20–24 | 8.6% | ||
| 9.3% | 15–19 | 9.3% | ||
| 9.8% | 10–14 | 9.2% | ||
| 9.6% | 5–9 | 8.6% | ||
| 9.9% | 0–4 | 9.5% | ||
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 Ben Ahmed’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 10,607
- Standing empty
- 25.4%15.3% vacant10.1% a second home
- Precarious
- 13.9%4.1% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 77.0%83.1% on the water mains93.2% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 19.1%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
- 1,48144.2 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 1,38393.4% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 2,4881.8 per business
- Public services
- 82
- Associations
- 16in 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.
Figures that stand out
The figures where this commune stands furthest from others, with its neighbours and 2014 beside each one.
The share of businesses founded before 1956 is 14.5%, among the highest 1% of communes of 5,000 people or more.
Across the 2 communes it borders, the median is 0.0%. Ain Dorbane-Lahlaf is furthest from it, at 0.0%.
In the data
Files and code
- Code
06.461.01.01- As digits
064610101- Slug
ben-ahmed- Census figures
/api/communes/06.461.01.01/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/06.461.01.01/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/06.461.01.01/housing.json- Figures that stand out
/api/communes/06.461.01.01/insights.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/06.461.01.01/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/06.461.01.01/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 17134210
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("ben-ahmed");