El Gantour
الكنتور
Rural commune in the cercle of El Gantour, province of Youssoufia, Marrakech-Safi.
- Population, 2024
- 17,270
- Since 2014
- −6.9%from 18,544 in 2014
- Density
- 70.2people per km², 246 km²
- Households
- 4,192
- Foreign residents
- 2
- Rank
- 369369th most populous of 1,503 communes8th of 11 in its province
Next door in Youssoufia, 99.1% of households are on the public sewer. Here, it’s 39.1%.
Since 2014, households with running water went from 28.4% to 46.3%. Across Morocco, the rise was 10 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Sidi Dahbi. Higher education: 3.2% here, 3.1% there; Darija: 99.3% here, 99.2% there; running water: 46.3% here, 50.1% 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 El Gantour.
El Gantour −6.9%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 34.5%aged 10 and over38.8% in 201443.5% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 35.6%23.7% in 201443.0% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 38.2%aged 15 and over45.5% in 20147.6% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 98.2%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.82children per woman2.69 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 6.8%of people6.7% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.1people on average5.2 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 46.3%of settled households28.4% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4% | 75 and over | 4.1% | ||
| 2.7% | 70–74 | 3.1% | ||
| 3.7% | 65–69 | 3.9% | ||
| 4.8% | 60–64 | 5.0% | ||
| 4.7% | 55–59 | 4.9% | ||
| 5.0% | 50–54 | 5.5% | ||
| 5.6% | 45–49 | 5.9% | ||
| 6.3% | 40–44 | 6.9% | ||
| 6.4% | 35–39 | 6.1% | ||
| 6.7% | 30–34 | 6.4% | ||
| 6.6% | 25–29 | 6.0% | ||
| 7.6% | 20–24 | 6.5% | ||
| 8.9% | 15–19 | 8.2% | ||
| 10.5% | 10–14 | 10.2% | ||
| 9.9% | 5–9 | 9.9% | ||
| 8.1% | 0–4 | 7.7% | ||
Local languages used
Many people use more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
More census figures
Languages read and written
By those aged 10 and over who can read.
Getting to work
How employed people get to work.
- Can’t read or write
- 38.8%aged 10 and over34.5% in 202451.3% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 23.7%35.6% in 202454.0% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 45.5%aged 15 and over38.2% in 202413.1% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 93.8%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.69children per woman2.82 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 6.7%of people6.8% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 5.2people on average4.1 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 28.4%of settled households46.3% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0% | 75 and over | 3.4% | ||
| 1.1% | 70–74 | 2.0% | ||
| 2.2% | 65–69 | 1.9% | ||
| 3.7% | 60–64 | 3.4% | ||
| 4.1% | 55–59 | 4.3% | ||
| 5.3% | 50–54 | 5.5% | ||
| 4.8% | 45–49 | 5.1% | ||
| 5.3% | 40–44 | 5.8% | ||
| 6.2% | 35–39 | 6.4% | ||
| 7.6% | 30–34 | 7.1% | ||
| 8.4% | 25–29 | 8.0% | ||
| 9.1% | 20–24 | 9.3% | ||
| 9.2% | 15–19 | 9.3% | ||
| 9.8% | 10–14 | 8.8% | ||
| 9.8% | 5–9 | 9.0% | ||
| 11.3% | 0–4 | 10.9% | ||
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 El Gantour’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 1,944
- Standing empty
- 21.0%12.0% vacant9.1% a second home
- Precarious
- 14.9%0.1% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 83.6%65.5% on the water mains92.2% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 20.9%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
- 51129.6 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 26451.7% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 3321.3 per business
- Public services
- 213
- Associations
- 34in 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.
| Sidi Ahmed | 6,180 |
Douars
El Gantour’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 40 douars in 4 fractions, with 11,080 people. Another 6,180 live in Sidi Ahmed, its urban centre, which has no douars. 10 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 | ||||
| الوبيرات الكنتورEl Oubirat El Gantour14 douars · 3,501 people | ||||||
| دوار الحاج ابراهيمDouar El Haj Brahim | In parts | 72 | 329 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 15.0 |
| الغوانمEl Ghouanem | In parts | 55 | 271 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 12.0 |
| دوار البكريDouar El Bekri | In parts | 86 | 337 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 8.1 |
| العبيضلاتEl-Abidlate | Grouped | 89 | 362 | 4.0 | 2.9 | 7.1 |
| دوار الرامي بن بوزيدDouar Er Rami Ben Bouzid | Grouped | 33 | 145 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 6.9 |
| دوار احمد بن محمدDouar Ahmed Ben Mohamed | In parts | 45 | 175 | 4.0 | 0.9 | 7.6 |
| دوار الكزارDouar Lguezzar | In parts | 151 | 626 | 6.2 | 1.5 | 6.9 |
| دوار قاسمDouar Kacem | Grouped | 105 | 438 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 6.2 |
| دوار اولاد بو عنانDouar Oulad Bou Anane | Grouped | 12 | 41 | — | — | — |
| دوار الحاج احمدDouar El Haj Ahmed | In parts | 77 | 325 | 1.8 | 4.6 | 4.9 |
| دوار الجهيرةDouar El Jihira | Grouped | 7 | 34 | — | — | — |
| الحاج المكيEl Haj El Mekki | Grouped | 42 | 162 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 10.3 |
| علي بن سلامAli Ben Sellam | Grouped | 13 | 60 | — | — | — |
| دوار زيدانDouar Zidane | Grouped | 38 | 196 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 9.0 |
| البلات الكنتور سيدي احمدEl Bellat El Gantour Sidi Ahmed19 douars · 3,788 people | ||||||
| زاوية سيدي العربي الميمونZaouit Sidi Larbi Mn | Grouped | 51 | 228 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 15.9 |
| دوار اولاد معمرDouar Oulad Maammer | Grouped | 49 | 277 | 0.1 | 5.4 | 9.5 |
| البلاتEl Bellat | Grouped | 42 | 195 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 9.0 |
| الطيبي بللمينTaibi Bellmine | Grouped | 33 | 179 | 0.0 | 3.9 | 8.1 |
| هدي بلفاطميHaddi Belfatmi | Grouped | 29 | 151 | — | — | — |
| هدي بن المنصورHaddi Ben Mansour | Grouped | 38 | 199 | 0.2 | 4.0 | 8.0 |
| القا يد مسعودEl Caid Massaoud | Grouped | 35 | 179 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 8.0 |
| كبور بن الناصريKabour Ben Naceri | Grouped | 44 | 224 | 6.6 | 5.0 | 8.0 |
| اولاد قدورOulad Kaddour | Grouped | 10 | 45 | — | — | — |
| القريوشاتLakriouchat | In parts | 27 | 136 | — | — | — |
| اولاد عبادOulad Abbad | In parts | 64 | 291 | 2.2 | 5.5 | 6.4 |
| اولاد بن الهنىOulad Ben Allal | Grouped | 61 | 276 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 |
| اولاد بن عمرOulad Ben Amer | Grouped | 82 | 371 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 |
| دوار رحمونOulad Rahmoun | Grouped | 23 | 102 | — | — | — |
| كبور بن حمادةKabbour Ben Hmida | In parts | 84 | 360 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 12.1 |
| المزوقةLamzaouka | In parts | 52 | 233 | 1.9 | 3.6 | 6.9 |
| عزيب الزراولةAzib Zeraoula | Grouped | 8 | 32 | — | — | — |
| دوار زاوية سيدي احمدDouar Zaouia Sidi Ahmed | Grouped | 63 | 241 | 1.2 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
| المقدم مباركLemqaddem Mbarek | Grouped | 13 | 69 | — | — | — |
| زاوية حرمة اللهZaouit Hormat Ellah6 douars · 3,738 people | ||||||
| دوار الشراديDouar Echarradi | In parts | 231 | 923 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 8.9 |
| أولاد الطالبOulad Taleb | Grouped | 51 | 211 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 15.3 |
| زاوية حرمة اللهZaouit Hormat Ellah | Grouped | 243 | 903 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 13.8 |
| دوار بني يخلفDouar Bni Yakhlef | Grouped | 72 | 264 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 15.9 |
| دوار الجبورات الكرمةDouar El Jbourat El Krma | Grouped | 61 | 211 | 2.9 | 5.0 | 7.7 |
| لمزيندةLemzinda | Grouped | 334 | 1,226 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 13.3 |
| حي الفتحHay Al Fath1 douar · 53 people | ||||||
| دوار الدكاكرة حي الفتحDouar Dgagra Hay Al Fath | Dispersed | 11 | 53 | — | — | — |
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
07.585.07.03- As digits
075850703- Slug
el-gantour- Census figures
/api/communes/07.585.07.03/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/07.585.07.03/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/07.585.07.03/housing.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/07.585.07.03/neighbours.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2827886
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("el-gantour");