Boulanouare
بولنوار
Rural commune in the cercle of Khouribga, province of Khouribga, Béni Mellal-Khénifra.
- Population, 2024
- 15,043
- Since 2014
- −6.2%from 16,041 in 2014
- Density
- 316people per km², 47.6 km²
- Households
- 3,799
- Foreign residents
- 2
- Rank
- 443443rd most populous of 1,503 communes5th of 31 in its province
Next door in Bni Ykhlef, 4.3% of households have running water. Here, it’s 56.4%.
Since 2014, households that own their home went from 85.9% to 50.2%. Across Morocco, the fall was 2 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Ihaddadene. Can’t read or write: 22.6% here, 24.7% there; aged 0 to 14: 25.3% here, 25.6% there; household size: 4.0 here, 4.0 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 Boulanouare.
Boulanouare −6.2%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 22.6%aged 10 and over28.0% in 201433.1% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 37.7%41.4% in 201451.2% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 39.1%aged 15 and over43.6% in 201413.0% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 97.9%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.75children per woman2.44 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 5.9%of people4.2% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.0people on average4.6 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 56.4%of settled households54.1% 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 | 3.8% | ||
| 4.1% | 70–74 | 3.4% | ||
| 4.1% | 65–69 | 4.8% | ||
| 5.0% | 60–64 | 5.7% | ||
| 4.2% | 55–59 | 5.1% | ||
| 5.4% | 50–54 | 5.6% | ||
| 6.2% | 45–49 | 6.1% | ||
| 6.8% | 40–44 | 6.9% | ||
| 6.6% | 35–39 | 6.9% | ||
| 6.7% | 30–34 | 6.6% | ||
| 6.3% | 25–29 | 6.4% | ||
| 7.3% | 20–24 | 7.1% | ||
| 8.3% | 15–19 | 7.5% | ||
| 10.0% | 10–14 | 9.2% | ||
| 9.1% | 5–9 | 8.7% | ||
| 7.5% | 0–4 | 6.2% | ||
Local languages used
Many people use more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
More census figures
Languages read and written
By those aged 10 and over who can read.
Getting to work
How employed people get to work.
- Can’t read or write
- 28.0%aged 10 and over22.6% in 202439.4% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 41.4%37.7% in 202469.2% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 43.6%aged 15 and over39.1% in 202417.6% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 97.3%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.44children per woman1.75 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.2%of people5.9% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.6people on average4.0 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 54.1%of settled households56.4% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2% | 75 and over | 2.7% | ||
| 1.1% | 70–74 | 1.5% | ||
| 1.8% | 65–69 | 1.9% | ||
| 5.2% | 60–64 | 3.7% | ||
| 4.8% | 55–59 | 5.2% | ||
| 5.1% | 50–54 | 6.2% | ||
| 4.7% | 45–49 | 5.8% | ||
| 6.1% | 40–44 | 6.1% | ||
| 6.9% | 35–39 | 7.1% | ||
| 8.4% | 30–34 | 8.1% | ||
| 8.0% | 25–29 | 8.2% | ||
| 8.9% | 20–24 | 8.7% | ||
| 9.1% | 15–19 | 8.5% | ||
| 9.2% | 10–14 | 8.9% | ||
| 8.6% | 5–9 | 7.9% | ||
| 10.9% | 0–4 | 9.7% | ||
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.
Urban dwellings
The 2024 census counted the dwellings in Boulanouare’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 3,202
- Standing empty
- 12.9%4.8% vacant8.1% a second home
- Precarious
- 35.0%32.5% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 70.6%69.8% on the water mains89.4% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 63.6%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
- 31320.8 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 24076.7% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 3781.6 per business
- Public services
- 67
- Associations
- 6in 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.
Urban centres
Towns inside the commune that the census counts on their own.
| Boulanouare | 11,232 |
Douars
Boulanouare’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 11 douars in 3 fractions, with 3,811 people. Another 11,232 live in Boulanouare, 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 | ||||
| أولاد ابراهيم الغربيينOulad Brahim Lgharbiyine4 douars · 1,483 people | ||||||
| المساعدة الغربيينM'saada Lgharbiyine | In parts | 120 | 490 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 6.3 |
| أولاد يعليOulad Yaala | In parts | 90 | 415 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 6.2 |
| حمرادHamrad | Grouped | 118 | 452 | 1.1 | 3.5 | 5.0 |
| بني مسكينBni Meskine | Grouped | 36 | 126 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 2.1 |
| أولاد ابراهيم الشرقيينOulad Brahim Echarqiyine2 douars · 1,925 people | ||||||
| أولاد العاتيOulad El Aati | In parts | 116 | 435 | 1.1 | 3.1 | 7.6 |
| لمساعدة الشرقيينEl Msaada Echarqiyine | In parts | 365 | 1,490 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 4.6 |
| مشيخة شعبة المنصورMchikhat Chaaba El Mansour5 douars · 403 people | ||||||
| ولاد حموOulad Hammou | Grouped | 23 | 69 | — | — | — |
| ولاد عليOulad Ali | Grouped | 21 | 82 | — | — | — |
| لݣفاف لحرارLagfaf Lahrar | Grouped | 45 | 191 | 1.0 | 4.1 | 5.7 |
| العلامةEl Alama | Grouped | 12 | 47 | — | — | — |
| المشاهرة ولاد عمارEl Mchahrat Oulad Amar | Dispersed | 5 | 14 | — | — | — |
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
05.311.05.05- As digits
053110505- Slug
boulanouare- Census figures
/api/communes/05.311.05.05/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/05.311.05.05/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/05.311.05.05/housing.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/05.311.05.05/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/05.311.05.05/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2879635
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("boulanouare");