Kerrouchen
كروشن
Rural commune in the cercle of El Kbab, province of Khénifra, Béni Mellal-Khénifra.
- Population, 2024
- 6,796
- Since 2014
- −3.2%from 7,021 in 2014
- Density
- 37.6people per km², 180.6 km²
- Households
- 1,736
- Foreign residents
- 1
- Rank
- 1,0291,029th most populous of 1,503 communes17th of 22 in its province
Next door in Tizi N'ghachou, 2.4% of households have running water. Here, it’s 44.3%.
Since 2014, unemployment went from 10.6% to 31.9%. Across Morocco, the rise was 5 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Tiztoutine. Can’t read or write: 49.8% here, 46.1% there; Darija: 52.1% here, 61.5% there; unemployment: 31.9% here, 30.5% there.
Where it is
Its province, shaded by density, and where that sits in Morocco.
Bordering communes
Postcode
54302
How it changed
Every commune, by how much it grew or shrank between the censuses. The line is Kerrouchen.
Kerrouchen −3.2%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 49.8%aged 10 and over54.8% in 201457.5% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 31.9%10.6% in 201452.0% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 35.0%aged 15 and over45.3% in 20144.8% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 94.0%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.14children per woman2.02 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 8.3%of people8.1% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 3.9people on average4.7 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 44.3%of settled households38.2% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.8% | 75 and over | 5.3% | ||
| 3.5% | 70–74 | 3.6% | ||
| 3.4% | 65–69 | 3.7% | ||
| 3.7% | 60–64 | 4.8% | ||
| 3.8% | 55–59 | 4.3% | ||
| 5.4% | 50–54 | 5.3% | ||
| 7.7% | 45–49 | 6.9% | ||
| 7.9% | 40–44 | 7.7% | ||
| 6.7% | 35–39 | 7.4% | ||
| 6.5% | 30–34 | 6.2% | ||
| 5.7% | 25–29 | 5.4% | ||
| 7.0% | 20–24 | 6.2% | ||
| 7.9% | 15–19 | 7.6% | ||
| 8.8% | 10–14 | 9.2% | ||
| 9.0% | 5–9 | 8.8% | ||
| 8.3% | 0–4 | 7.5% | ||
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
- 54.8%aged 10 and over49.8% in 202464.9% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 10.6%31.9% in 202443.9% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 45.3%aged 15 and over35.0% in 202410.5% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 93.0%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.02children per woman2.14 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 8.1%of people8.3% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.7people on average3.9 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 38.2%of settled households44.3% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.5% | 75 and over | 3.4% | ||
| 2.1% | 70–74 | 2.2% | ||
| 2.8% | 65–69 | 2.3% | ||
| 4.3% | 60–64 | 4.4% | ||
| 3.2% | 55–59 | 4.1% | ||
| 3.8% | 50–54 | 4.9% | ||
| 4.5% | 45–49 | 5.3% | ||
| 5.5% | 40–44 | 5.7% | ||
| 8.4% | 35–39 | 7.9% | ||
| 8.6% | 30–34 | 8.1% | ||
| 8.6% | 25–29 | 8.9% | ||
| 8.3% | 20–24 | 8.9% | ||
| 8.5% | 15–19 | 8.0% | ||
| 9.6% | 10–14 | 8.6% | ||
| 8.6% | 5–9 | 8.2% | ||
| 9.0% | 0–4 | 9.1% | ||
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 Kerrouchen’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 844
- Standing empty
- 18.2%8.6% vacant9.6% a second home
- Precarious
- 12.4%9.4% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 86.7%89.5% on the water mains84.2% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 16.9%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
- 22433.0 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 13058.0% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 1701.3 per business
- Public services
- 92
- Associations
- 2in 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.
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 stone is 41.1%, among the highest 1% of communes of 5,000 people or more.
Across 3 of the 8 communes it borders, the median is 3.0%. El Kbab is furthest from it, at 1.7%.
Urban centres
Towns inside the commune that the census counts on their own.
| Kerrouchen | 2,399 |
Douars
Kerrouchen’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 15 douars in 3 fractions, with 4,397 people. Another 2,399 live in Kerrouchen, 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 | ||||
| ايت سعدلي سروAit Saadelli Srou4 douars · 1,683 people | ||||||
| ابيغلانIbighlane | Dispersed | 137 | 629 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 14.1 |
| أروݣوArouggou | Dispersed | 98 | 470 | 5.5 | 1.1 | 19.3 |
| امرهانImarhane | Dispersed | 90 | 386 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 15.1 |
| ايت حموAit Hammou | Dispersed | 44 | 198 | 2.2 | 6.7 | 8.8 |
| ايت علي اموسىAit Ali Amoussa3 douars · 1,065 people | ||||||
| ايت تيزيAit Tizi | Dispersed | 83 | 365 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 10.7 |
| ايت إشعى اوحدوAit Ichaa Aouhdou | Dispersed | 93 | 363 | 6.5 | 4.7 | 8.1 |
| ايت علا احمادAit Alla Hmad | Dispersed | 83 | 337 | 2.0 | 3.3 | 5.3 |
| ايت عثمانAit Othmane8 douars · 1,649 people | ||||||
| تسفولتTasfoult | Dispersed | 88 | 300 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 9.2 |
| تامداحتTamaddahte | Dispersed | 61 | 237 | 5.7 | 3.2 | 15.7 |
| ايت الطالبAit Ettaleb | Dispersed | 52 | 234 | 6.2 | 2.6 | 12.9 |
| ايدبدوبينEdabdoubine | Dispersed | 18 | 70 | — | — | — |
| بوشرموBouchermou | Dispersed | 79 | 326 | 6.1 | 1.8 | 19.5 |
| اوعبادةOuabada | Dispersed | 22 | 87 | — | — | — |
| تاميمونتTamimounte | Dispersed | 36 | 162 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 14.4 |
| ايت سيدي علي اواعمرAit Sidi Ali Ouamar | Dispersed | 56 | 233 | 1.5 | 3.1 | 16.1 |
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
05.301.03.07- As digits
053010307- Slug
kerrouchen- Census figures
/api/communes/05.301.03.07/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/05.301.03.07/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/05.301.03.07/housing.json- Figures that stand out
/api/communes/05.301.03.07/insights.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/05.301.03.07/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/05.301.03.07/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2826596
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("kerrouchen");