Dkhissa
الدخيسة
Rural commune in the cercle of Meknès-Banlieue, préfecture of Meknès, Fès-Meknès.
- Population, 2024
- 28,296
- Since 2014
- +42.1%from 19,908 in 2014
- Density
- 332people per km², 85.2 km²
- Households
- 6,574
- Foreign residents
- 13
- Rank
- 202202nd most populous of 1,503 communes4th of 21 in its préfecture
Next door in Oued Jdida, 14.7% of households are on the public sewer. Here, it’s 66.6%.
Since 2014, households with running water went from 51.9% to 85.9%. Across Morocco, the rise was 10 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Loulad. Unemployment: 31.3% here, 31.6% there; can’t read or write: 27.7% here, 28.6% there; aged 0 to 14: 30.6% here, 30.5% there.
Where it is
Its préfecture, shaded by density, and where that sits in Morocco.
Bordering communes
Postcode
50064
How it changed
Every commune, by how much it grew or shrank between the censuses. The line is Dkhissa.
Dkhissa +42.1%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 27.7%aged 10 and over38.4% in 201436.4% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 31.3%13.8% in 201436.0% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 40.3%aged 15 and over46.2% in 20149.9% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 97.6%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.57children per woman2.33 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.3%of people4.9% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.3people on average4.8 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 85.9%of settled households51.9% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1% | 75 and over | 2.6% | ||
| 1.9% | 70–74 | 1.8% | ||
| 2.7% | 65–69 | 2.4% | ||
| 4.3% | 60–64 | 3.7% | ||
| 4.4% | 55–59 | 3.7% | ||
| 6.1% | 50–54 | 5.3% | ||
| 6.8% | 45–49 | 6.3% | ||
| 7.0% | 40–44 | 7.6% | ||
| 6.7% | 35–39 | 7.9% | ||
| 5.6% | 30–34 | 7.1% | ||
| 5.5% | 25–29 | 6.3% | ||
| 6.7% | 20–24 | 7.0% | ||
| 9.0% | 15–19 | 8.6% | ||
| 11.8% | 10–14 | 11.2% | ||
| 10.8% | 5–9 | 10.5% | ||
| 8.6% | 0–4 | 8.2% | ||
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
- 38.4%aged 10 and over27.7% in 202449.8% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 13.8%31.3% in 202430.4% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 46.2%aged 15 and over40.3% in 202410.9% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 96.5%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.33children per woman2.57 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.9%of people4.3% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.8people on average4.3 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 51.9%of settled households85.9% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.9% | 75 and over | 2.4% | ||
| 1.6% | 70–74 | 1.5% | ||
| 1.4% | 65–69 | 1.5% | ||
| 2.6% | 60–64 | 2.5% | ||
| 3.5% | 55–59 | 3.3% | ||
| 4.9% | 50–54 | 4.5% | ||
| 5.4% | 45–49 | 4.7% | ||
| 7.1% | 40–44 | 6.8% | ||
| 7.8% | 35–39 | 7.8% | ||
| 7.7% | 30–34 | 9.0% | ||
| 8.2% | 25–29 | 8.8% | ||
| 7.8% | 20–24 | 8.0% | ||
| 8.1% | 15–19 | 8.5% | ||
| 9.2% | 10–14 | 9.3% | ||
| 10.7% | 5–9 | 10.0% | ||
| 11.8% | 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.
Urban dwellings
The 2024 census counted the dwellings in Dkhissa’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 4,280
- Standing empty
- 28.2%19.9% vacant8.3% a second home
- Precarious
- 1.4%1.0% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 64.7%75.5% on the water mains82.0% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 2.1%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
- 52818.7 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 45285.6% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 6781.5 per business
- Public services
- 57
- Associations
- 19in 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.
| Zoualet | 14,249 |
Douars
Dkhissa’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 20 douars in 8 fractions, with 13,962 people. Another 14,249 live in Zoualet, its urban centre, which has no douars. 85 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 | ||||
| أولاد انصيرOulad Ansir2 douars · 2,442 people | ||||||
| تامسنةtamesna | Grouped | 324 | 1,330 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| الخلطKhlot | In parts | 265 | 1,112 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
| لمخاطيرLamkhatir2 douars · 1,095 people | ||||||
| تعاونية المنزهCoopérative El Menzeh | In parts | 123 | 624 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 5.3 |
| باعيش ظهر السماBaich Dhar Essma | Dispersed | 103 | 471 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 6.0 |
| الباعيش الخلوةEl Baich Lkhaloua3 douars · 1,217 people | ||||||
| عين معشوقAin Maachouk | Grouped | 69 | 315 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 13.8 |
| الباعيش الخلوةEl Baich Lkhaloua | Dispersed | 203 | 868 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 4.7 |
| عين القطAin Alkat | Dispersed | 6 | 34 | — | — | — |
| أولاد رحوOd Rahou4 douars · 2,129 people | ||||||
| أولاد رحوOd Rahou | In parts | 239 | 954 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 4.0 |
| راس الوادRas El Oued | Dispersed | 51 | 192 | 5.3 | 3.3 | 3.8 |
| البويبةBouiba | Grouped | 16 | 75 | — | — | — |
| ورزيغةWarzigha | Grouped | 206 | 908 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 5.2 |
| ازطوطنZtouten4 douars · 1,884 people | ||||||
| ازطوطنZtouten | In parts | 134 | 540 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 5.8 |
| سيدي امباركSidi Mbarek | Grouped | 24 | 145 | — | — | — |
| الكندولEl Kndoul | Grouped | 88 | 436 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 8.9 |
| سيدي بوخبزةSidi Boukhbza | Grouped | 173 | 763 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 3.9 |
| أولاد ميمونOd Mimoun1 douar · 395 people | ||||||
| أولاد ميمونOd Mimoun | In parts | 87 | 395 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 10.3 |
| الحي الجديد ( الضحى)Hay Jdid (Doha)3 douars · 4,464 people | ||||||
| تجزئة الضحىLotissement Doha | Grouped | 1,114 | 4,376 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 3.3 |
| المعطيينEl Matiine | Grouped | 8 | 27 | — | — | — |
| عين الكبير(الضهورة)Ain El Kebir (Eddhoura) | Dispersed | 17 | 61 | — | — | — |
| الزوالتEzzoualt1 douar · 336 people | ||||||
| اولاد عبد الله بن رحوOd Abdellah Ben Rahou | In parts | 74 | 336 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 3.1 |
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
03.061.05.01- As digits
030610501- Slug
dkhissa- Census figures
/api/communes/03.061.05.01/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/03.061.05.01/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/03.061.05.01/housing.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/03.061.05.01/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/03.061.05.01/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2759270
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("dkhissa");