Massa
ماسة
Rural commune in the cercle of Belfaâ-Massa, province of Chtouka-Aït Baha, Souss-Massa.
- Population, 2024
- 17,946
- Since 2014
- +2.1%from 17,579 in 2014
- Density
- 107people per km², 168.5 km²
- Households
- 4,994
- Foreign residents
- 7
- Rank
- 354354th most populous of 1,503 communes7th of 22 in its province
Next door in El Maader El Kabir, 48.3% of households have running water. Here, it’s 98.0%.
Since 2014, unemployment went from 11.7% to 24.2%. Across Morocco, the rise was 5 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Zeghanghane. Aged 0 to 14: 23.4% here, 23.6% there; household size: 3.6 here, 3.8 there; aged 65 and over: 11.8% here, 12.2% 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 Massa.
Massa +2.1%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 27.3%aged 10 and over31.5% in 201440.5% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 24.2%11.7% in 201424.8% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 37.2%aged 15 and over39.8% in 201410.4% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 98.0%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.67children per woman1.90 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.4%of people5.7% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 3.6people on average4.3 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 98.0%of settled households97.0% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6% | 75 and over | 5.4% | ||
| 3.0% | 70–74 | 2.9% | ||
| 3.9% | 65–69 | 3.8% | ||
| 5.2% | 60–64 | 5.5% | ||
| 5.7% | 55–59 | 5.9% | ||
| 6.3% | 50–54 | 6.6% | ||
| 7.0% | 45–49 | 7.8% | ||
| 6.9% | 40–44 | 7.7% | ||
| 6.1% | 35–39 | 6.7% | ||
| 5.7% | 30–34 | 6.1% | ||
| 5.4% | 25–29 | 5.3% | ||
| 6.8% | 20–24 | 6.3% | ||
| 9.0% | 15–19 | 7.7% | ||
| 9.4% | 10–14 | 8.7% | ||
| 8.5% | 5–9 | 7.7% | ||
| 6.5% | 0–4 | 5.8% | ||
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
- 31.5%aged 10 and over27.3% in 202445.7% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 11.7%24.2% in 202421.4% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 39.8%aged 15 and over37.2% in 202410.1% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 98.7%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.90children per woman1.67 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 5.7%of people4.4% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.3people on average3.6 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 97.0%of settled households98.0% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8% | 75 and over | 4.0% | ||
| 2.2% | 70–74 | 2.7% | ||
| 2.6% | 65–69 | 2.7% | ||
| 3.3% | 60–64 | 3.7% | ||
| 4.4% | 55–59 | 4.0% | ||
| 5.5% | 50–54 | 5.8% | ||
| 6.5% | 45–49 | 6.3% | ||
| 6.7% | 40–44 | 7.1% | ||
| 7.5% | 35–39 | 8.1% | ||
| 7.4% | 30–34 | 7.8% | ||
| 7.5% | 25–29 | 8.1% | ||
| 7.7% | 20–24 | 7.7% | ||
| 8.6% | 15–19 | 7.8% | ||
| 8.5% | 10–14 | 7.9% | ||
| 9.0% | 5–9 | 7.9% | ||
| 8.7% | 0–4 | 8.6% | ||
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 Massa’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 3,996
- Standing empty
- 22.7%11.2% vacant11.6% a second home
- Precarious
- 2.2%0.1% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 1.9%97.7% on the water mains97.6% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 2.5%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
- 69238.6 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 58384.2% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 8081.4 per business
- Public services
- 80
- Associations
- 29in 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.
| Massa | 11,496 |
Douars
Massa’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 12 douars in 2 fractions, with 6,422 people. Another 11,496 live in Massa, its urban centre, which has no douars. 28 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 | ||||
| تاسنولتTasnoult10 douars · 5,648 people | ||||||
| إفنتارIfantar | Grouped | 193 | 698 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| إكرار الكدرورIgrar Lgadrour | Grouped | 79 | 254 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 5.8 |
| سيدي بولفضايلSidi Boulfdail | In parts | 72 | 265 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 2.7 |
| إذا واللونIdawloun | Grouped | 206 | 718 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 9.0 |
| تيكيوتTikioute | Grouped | 105 | 365 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 4.1 |
| إداومحياIdaou Mihia | Grouped | 102 | 352 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.9 |
| أيت سوقAit Souk | Grouped | 24 | 80 | — | — | — |
| أيت إلياسAit Iyass | Grouped | 71 | 243 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 |
| تسنولتTassnoulte | Grouped | 390 | 1,384 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 3.7 |
| جوابرEl Jouaber | Grouped | 331 | 1,289 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 4.0 |
| تاسيلاTassila2 douars · 774 people | ||||||
| المرس سيدي أحمدEl Mars Sidi Hmed | In parts | 200 | 698 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 9.6 |
| سيدي عبوSidi Abbou | Grouped | 23 | 76 | — | — | — |
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
09.163.05.21- As digits
091630521- Slug
massa- Census figures
/api/communes/09.163.05.21/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/09.163.05.21/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/09.163.05.21/housing.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/09.163.05.21/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/09.163.05.21/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2832951
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("massa");