Laouamra
العوامرة
Rural commune in the cercle of Loukouss, province of Larache, Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima.
- Population, 2024
- 48,253
- Since 2014
- +18.8%from 40,605 in 2014
- Density
- 236people per km², 204.3 km²
- Households
- 8,949
- Foreign residents
- 2
- Rank
- 105105th most populous of 1,503 communes3rd of 19 in its province
Next door in Larache, 93.1% of households are on the public sewer. Here, it’s 6.0%.
Since 2014, the share of people aged 10 and over who can’t read or write went from 47.6% to 34.5%. Across Morocco, the fall was 7 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Ameur Seflia. Aged 0 to 14: 34.6% here, 34.7% there; aged 65 and over: 4.9% here, 4.9% there; running water: 18.5% here, 8.6% there.
Where it is
Its province, shaded by density, and where that sits in Morocco.
Bordering communes
How it changed
Every commune, by how much it grew or shrank between the censuses. The line is Laouamra.
Laouamra +18.8%
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 over47.6% in 201443.1% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 14.3%8.1% in 201428.5% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 46.2%aged 15 and over53.7% in 201418.9% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 96.3%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.44children per woman2.50 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 3.6%of people3.9% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 5.4people on average5.9 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 18.5%of settled households13.1% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4% | 75 and over | 1.9% | ||
| 1.4% | 70–74 | 1.2% | ||
| 2.1% | 65–69 | 1.8% | ||
| 3.6% | 60–64 | 3.9% | ||
| 2.9% | 55–59 | 3.4% | ||
| 3.2% | 50–54 | 3.6% | ||
| 4.7% | 45–49 | 4.7% | ||
| 6.7% | 40–44 | 6.7% | ||
| 8.3% | 35–39 | 7.8% | ||
| 7.7% | 30–34 | 8.0% | ||
| 6.9% | 25–29 | 7.5% | ||
| 6.9% | 20–24 | 7.5% | ||
| 8.3% | 15–19 | 8.5% | ||
| 11.9% | 10–14 | 11.2% | ||
| 12.9% | 5–9 | 12.3% | ||
| 10.9% | 0–4 | 10.0% | ||
Local languages used
Many people use more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
More census figures
Languages read and written
By those aged 10 and over who can read.
Getting to work
How employed people get to work.
- Can’t read or write
- 47.6%aged 10 and over34.5% in 202458.2% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 8.1%14.3% in 202415.3% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 53.7%aged 15 and over46.2% in 202423.2% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 89.4%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.50children per woman2.44 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 3.9%of people3.6% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 5.9people on average5.4 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 13.1%of settled households18.5% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5% | 75 and over | 1.5% | ||
| 1.2% | 70–74 | 1.3% | ||
| 0.8% | 65–69 | 1.0% | ||
| 2.0% | 60–64 | 1.7% | ||
| 2.9% | 55–59 | 2.7% | ||
| 4.4% | 50–54 | 4.4% | ||
| 3.9% | 45–49 | 4.3% | ||
| 4.2% | 40–44 | 4.5% | ||
| 5.4% | 35–39 | 5.8% | ||
| 8.4% | 30–34 | 7.7% | ||
| 11.0% | 25–29 | 10.2% | ||
| 11.5% | 20–24 | 11.7% | ||
| 10.3% | 15–19 | 10.2% | ||
| 9.4% | 10–14 | 9.6% | ||
| 10.1% | 5–9 | 10.4% | ||
| 13.0% | 0–4 | 12.9% | ||
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 Laouamra’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 2,695
- Standing empty
- 22.2%9.9% vacant12.2% a second home
- Precarious
- 3.6%2.3% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 20.5%19.9% on the water mains87.3% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 4.6%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
- 92419.1 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 80386.9% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 3,6144.5 per business
- Public services
- 110
- Associations
- 11in 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 on the public water network is 19.9%, among the lowest 1% of communes of 5,000 people or more.
Across 2 of the 5 communes it borders, the median is 80.5%. Larache is furthest from it, at 90.6%.
Urban centres
Towns inside the commune that the census counts on their own.
| Laouamra | 9,941 |
Douars
Laouamra’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 20 douars in 9 fractions, with 38,217 people. Another 9,941 live in Laouamra, its urban centre, which has no douars. 95 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 | ||||
| العوامرة الشماليةLaouamra Chamalia2 douars · 4,834 people | ||||||
| الغديرة الرياحEl Ghdira Erryah | In parts | 261 | 1,456 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 13.5 |
| الرحامنةRhamna | In parts | 635 | 3,378 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 9.6 |
| دوار العوامرةDouar Laouamra2 douars · 1,501 people | ||||||
| العوامرة الدوارLaouamra Douar | Grouped | 193 | 1,202 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 4.0 |
| تعاونية بوجدورCoopérative Boujdour | Grouped | 49 | 299 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 5.7 |
| سيدي علال الشريفSidi Allal Cherif3 douars · 10,366 people | ||||||
| دوار أولاد صخرDouar Oulad Skhr | In parts | 641 | 4,542 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 15.2 |
| أولاد الغماري الرملOuled Laghmari Rmal | In parts | 573 | 3,223 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 9.4 |
| دوار الزلاولةDouar Ezzlaoula | Grouped | 429 | 2,601 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 14.6 |
| بوشارن مول الجناناتBoucharen Moul El Jnanat4 douars · 4,242 people | ||||||
| بوشارنBou Charen | Grouped | 444 | 2,097 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 8.7 |
| دهيريةDahiria | Grouped | 214 | 991 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 9.4 |
| العدارةEl Adir | Grouped | 235 | 1,094 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 12.4 |
| العديرEl Adir | Grouped | 15 | 60 | — | — | — |
| الهيايضةEl Hyayda1 douar · 7,062 people | ||||||
| الهيايضةEl Hyayda | In parts | 1,162 | 7,062 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 14.9 |
| الموارعة الرملMouaraa Rmel1 douar · 2,266 people | ||||||
| الموارعة الرملMouaraa Rmel | Grouped | 413 | 2,266 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 3.3 |
| السخسوخEsskhsoukh2 douars · 3,144 people | ||||||
| أولاد حمو الغابةOuled Hammou El Ghaba | In parts | 563 | 2,602 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 8.6 |
| الحساسنةEl Hasasna | Grouped | 114 | 542 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 10.9 |
| اصويرAssouyr2 douars · 1,089 people | ||||||
| برغةBargha | Grouped | 126 | 773 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 19.0 |
| صويرSouyr | Grouped | 52 | 316 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 34.4 |
| سيدي بونوارSidi Bounouar3 douars · 3,713 people | ||||||
| الهشايشةLahchayecha | Grouped | 179 | 870 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 28.4 |
| الغوازيLaghwazi | Grouped | 388 | 2,499 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 23.9 |
| الهراكشةEl Hrakcha | Grouped | 61 | 344 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 26.6 |
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
01.331.07.05- As digits
013310705- Slug
laouamra- Census figures
/api/communes/01.331.07.05/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/01.331.07.05/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/01.331.07.05/housing.json- Figures that stand out
/api/communes/01.331.07.05/insights.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/01.331.07.05/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/01.331.07.05/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2754180
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("laouamra");