Boumia
بومية
Urban commune in the province of Midelt, Drâa-Tafilalet.
- Population, 2024
- 21,713
- Since 2014
- +19.2%from 18,212 in 2014
- Density
- 76.3people per km², 284.7 km²
- Households
- 5,879
- Foreign residents
- 13
- Rank
- 278278th most populous of 1,503 communes3rd of 29 in its province
Next door in Tizi N'ghachou, 2.4% of households have running water. Here, it’s 92.8%.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Agourai. Running water: 92.8% here, 95.5% there; read French: 54.3% here, 58.9% there; aged 0 to 14: 27.2% here, 26.7% 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 Boumia.
Boumia +19.2%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 34.4%aged 10 and over40.1% in 201443.8% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 20.4%17.0% in 201429.6% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 39.7%aged 15 and over44.5% in 201414.3% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 95.2%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.75children per woman2.06 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.5%of people6.0% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 3.7people on average4.1 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 92.8%of settled households85.8% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7% | 75 and over | 2.8% | ||
| 2.5% | 70–74 | 2.1% | ||
| 3.3% | 65–69 | 3.1% | ||
| 4.6% | 60–64 | 4.6% | ||
| 4.1% | 55–59 | 4.2% | ||
| 5.7% | 50–54 | 5.8% | ||
| 6.8% | 45–49 | 7.5% | ||
| 7.3% | 40–44 | 8.2% | ||
| 6.8% | 35–39 | 6.9% | ||
| 6.6% | 30–34 | 8.1% | ||
| 5.9% | 25–29 | 6.5% | ||
| 6.8% | 20–24 | 6.8% | ||
| 8.0% | 15–19 | 7.9% | ||
| 10.5% | 10–14 | 9.3% | ||
| 10.1% | 5–9 | 8.8% | ||
| 8.2% | 0–4 | 7.4% | ||
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
- 40.1%aged 10 and over34.4% in 202450.6% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 17.0%20.4% in 202436.7% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 44.5%aged 15 and over39.7% in 202418.3% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 95.6%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.06children per woman1.75 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 6.0%of people4.5% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.1people on average3.7 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 85.8%of settled households92.8% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5% | 75 and over | 2.3% | ||
| 1.8% | 70–74 | 1.6% | ||
| 1.5% | 65–69 | 1.5% | ||
| 3.6% | 60–64 | 3.3% | ||
| 4.0% | 55–59 | 3.3% | ||
| 5.5% | 50–54 | 5.0% | ||
| 4.8% | 45–49 | 5.6% | ||
| 6.7% | 40–44 | 7.2% | ||
| 7.2% | 35–39 | 9.0% | ||
| 7.9% | 30–34 | 9.3% | ||
| 7.8% | 25–29 | 8.1% | ||
| 8.7% | 20–24 | 10.0% | ||
| 9.1% | 15–19 | 8.2% | ||
| 9.6% | 10–14 | 7.9% | ||
| 8.9% | 5–9 | 8.4% | ||
| 10.4% | 0–4 | 9.2% | ||
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 Boumia’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 6,434
- Standing empty
- 20.0%11.5% vacant8.4% a second home
- Precarious
- 1.4%0.0% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 96.7%98.1% on the water mains97.5% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 1.8%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
- 1,17754.2 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 1,09593.0% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 1,4631.3 per business
- Public services
- 62
- Associations
- 20in premises of their own
- Weekly souks
- 2counted 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.
| Boumia | 19,433 |
Douars
The villages and hamlets of Boumia’s rural part, as the 2024 census counted them: 15 douars in 4 fractions, with 2,270 people. What each figure counts
| Douar | Kind | Households | People | Distance from home, km | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paved road | Primary school | Health centre | ||||
| ايت سعيد أوحسينAit Said Aouhsine5 douars · 802 people | ||||||
| أوفريدنOufriden | Dispersed | 20 | 75 | — | — | — |
| ايت بازةAit Bazza | Dispersed | 38 | 146 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 3.2 |
| ايت محمدAit Mohamed | In parts | 88 | 411 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 5.3 |
| ايت لحسنAit Lahcen | Dispersed | 23 | 89 | — | — | — |
| ايت رحوAit Rahou | Dispersed | 20 | 81 | — | — | — |
| ايت آعمر أوحسينAit Amer Aouhsine2 douars · 448 people | ||||||
| ايت منصور أوعليAit Mansour Ou Ali | Dispersed | 72 | 311 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.8 |
| ايت شراط انتكمةAit Chrat N'Tgouma | Dispersed | 32 | 137 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 5.8 |
| ايت موسى أوعليAit Moussa Ali4 douars · 552 people | ||||||
| ايت عبد السلامAit Abdeslam | Dispersed | 38 | 162 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 10.0 |
| ايت واحىAit Wahi | Dispersed | 20 | 64 | — | — | — |
| ايت علي مجّينAit Ali Majine | Dispersed | 41 | 154 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 9.1 |
| ايت بن آعزيزAit Ben Aziz | Dispersed | 41 | 172 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 13.6 |
| ايت علي او داوودAit Ali Ou Daoud4 douars · 468 people | ||||||
| أيت علي او داوودAit Ali Ou Daoud | Dispersed | 25 | 127 | — | — | — |
| إمزيلOumzil | Grouped | 35 | 180 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 17.6 |
| تمراغوتTamerraghout | Grouped | 27 | 125 | — | — | — |
| تاكنزارتTaknzart | Dispersed | 7 | 36 | — | — | — |
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
08.363.01.15- As digits
083630115- Slug
boumia- Census figures
/api/communes/08.363.01.15/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/08.363.01.15/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/08.363.01.15/housing.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/08.363.01.15/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/08.363.01.15/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2826600
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("boumia");