Gourrama
كرامة
Rural commune in the cercle of Er-Rich, province of Midelt, Drâa-Tafilalet.
- Population, 2024
- 15,952
- Since 2014
- +6.9%from 14,927 in 2014
- Density
- 19.9people per km², 800.5 km²
- Households
- 3,379
- Foreign residents
- 1
- Rank
- 410410th most populous of 1,503 communes4th of 29 in its province
Next door in Ouizeght, 1.2% of households are on the public sewer. Here, it’s 38.4%.
Since 2014, households on the public sewer went from 12.8% to 38.4%. Across Morocco, the rise was 7 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Barkine. Read French: 65.9% here, 60.8% there; household size: 4.7 here, 4.8 there; in the labour force: 34.9% here, 35.4% 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 Gourrama.
Gourrama +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
- 39.3%aged 10 and over48.3% in 201448.5% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 33.6%24.0% in 201439.9% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 34.9%aged 15 and over41.7% in 20146.8% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 95.2%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.84children per woman2.96 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 3.7%of people4.9% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.7people on average5.1 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 83.0%of settled households73.8% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2% | 75 and over | 3.8% | ||
| 2.3% | 70–74 | 2.2% | ||
| 3.6% | 65–69 | 2.6% | ||
| 3.9% | 60–64 | 3.8% | ||
| 4.0% | 55–59 | 4.3% | ||
| 4.8% | 50–54 | 4.6% | ||
| 4.6% | 45–49 | 5.8% | ||
| 5.3% | 40–44 | 5.8% | ||
| 5.0% | 35–39 | 5.6% | ||
| 6.2% | 30–34 | 6.7% | ||
| 6.2% | 25–29 | 6.8% | ||
| 7.2% | 20–24 | 7.1% | ||
| 10.5% | 15–19 | 10.0% | ||
| 12.3% | 10–14 | 11.5% | ||
| 11.7% | 5–9 | 10.1% | ||
| 9.4% | 0–4 | 9.3% | ||
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
- 48.3%aged 10 and over39.3% in 202457.7% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 24.0%33.6% in 202449.3% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 41.7%aged 15 and over34.9% in 202414.5% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 80.6%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.96children per woman2.84 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.9%of people3.7% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 5.1people on average4.7 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 73.8%of settled households83.0% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6% | 75 and over | 2.6% | ||
| 1.8% | 70–74 | 1.8% | ||
| 2.1% | 65–69 | 1.9% | ||
| 3.2% | 60–64 | 3.0% | ||
| 4.2% | 55–59 | 3.3% | ||
| 4.8% | 50–54 | 4.6% | ||
| 4.6% | 45–49 | 5.1% | ||
| 4.9% | 40–44 | 5.3% | ||
| 5.0% | 35–39 | 6.4% | ||
| 6.2% | 30–34 | 6.9% | ||
| 6.3% | 25–29 | 7.2% | ||
| 10.1% | 20–24 | 9.4% | ||
| 9.8% | 15–19 | 9.9% | ||
| 10.3% | 10–14 | 9.6% | ||
| 11.7% | 5–9 | 11.1% | ||
| 12.5% | 0–4 | 12.0% | ||
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 Gourrama’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 2,298
- Standing empty
- 13.8%8.6% vacant5.3% a second home
- Precarious
- 44.1%0.0% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 62.0%88.5% on the water mains95.8% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 88.0%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
- 47930.0 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 35774.5% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 4251.2 per business
- Public services
- 87
- Associations
- 35in 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 urban dwellings with walls of other materials is 42.8%, among the highest 1% of communes of 5,000 people or more.
Of the communes it borders, only Talsint can be compared: 11.4%.
The share of urban dwellings with a roof of other materials is 42.7%, among the highest 1% of communes of 5,000 people or more.
Of the communes it borders, only Talsint can be compared: 10.2%.
Urban centres
Towns inside the commune that the census counts on their own.
| Gourrama | 8,829 |
Douars
Gourrama’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 21 douars in 5 fractions, with 5,697 people. Another 8,829 live in Gourrama, its urban centre, which has no douars. 1,426 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 | ||||
| اكرامةAkrama5 douars · 1,340 people | ||||||
| أيت عليAit Ali | Grouped | 26 | 121 | — | — | — |
| تفنداستTafendast | Grouped | 76 | 374 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 4.2 |
| الحروش الجديد الشرقيEl Harouch Jdid Cherki | Dispersed | 101 | 548 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 4.4 |
| أحدجميAhdjmi | Dispersed | 12 | 68 | — | — | — |
| لحروش الجديد الغربيLahrouch Jdid El Gharbi | Dispersed | 44 | 229 | 4.9 | 2.0 | 4.9 |
| كرامة وخنك كيرGourrama Oukhnk Guir3 douars · 1,227 people | ||||||
| تكريرتTagrirt | Grouped | 120 | 598 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 7.2 |
| الهريEl Heri | Grouped | 65 | 309 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 9.4 |
| تالهريتTalharite | Grouped | 69 | 320 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 9.7 |
| أيت مسروح الوسطىAit Mesrouh El Ousseta3 douars · 1,309 people | ||||||
| بوعضيةBoudia | Dispersed | 15 | 81 | — | — | — |
| تيزي ويلالنTizi Ouilalne | In parts | 59 | 310 | 4.9 | 2.4 | 24.8 |
| ألمو ابوريAlmou Abouri | In parts | 160 | 918 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 54.0 |
| كير العاليGuir Ali5 douars · 1,193 people | ||||||
| تداوتTadaout | Grouped | 40 | 157 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 11.6 |
| القصبةKasba | Grouped | 19 | 78 | — | — | — |
| القصر الأبيضKsar El Abied | Grouped | 30 | 139 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 13.1 |
| تيط انعليTit n’Ali | Grouped | 153 | 640 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 14.5 |
| تيو زكينTiouzaguine | Dispersed | 37 | 179 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 10.5 |
| أيت مسروح الغربيينAit Mesrouh Lgharbiyine5 douars · 628 people | ||||||
| تلالونTalaloune | Grouped | 6 | 27 | — | — | — |
| تيجانTijane | Dispersed | 22 | 106 | — | — | — |
| أداشرAdacher | Grouped | 51 | 296 | 4.0 | 1.6 | 24.8 |
| تيجمونينTijmounine | Grouped | 9 | 51 | — | — | — |
| تاملكانتTamelikant | Grouped | 26 | 148 | — | — | — |
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
08.363.09.03- As digits
083630903- Slug
gourrama- Census figures
/api/communes/08.363.09.03/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/08.363.09.03/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/08.363.09.03/housing.json- Figures that stand out
/api/communes/08.363.09.03/insights.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/08.363.09.03/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/08.363.09.03/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2827120
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("gourrama");