Mers El Kheir
مرس الخير
Rural commune in the cercle of Témara, préfecture of Skhirate-Témara, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra.
- Population, 2024
- 26,544
- Since 2014
- +28.8%from 20,617 in 2014
- Density
- 1,564people per km², 17 km²
- Households
- 6,106
- Foreign residents
- 10
- Rank
- 214214th most populous of 1,503 communes6th of 10 in its préfecture
Since 2014, households on the public sewer went from 76.9% to 89.0%. Across Morocco, the rise was 7 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Lbir Jdid. Can’t read or write: 19.5% here, 19.3% there; aged 65 and over: 6.2% here, 6.9% there; apartments: 12.3% here, 11.4% there.
Where it is
Its préfecture, 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 Mers El Kheir.
Mers El Kheir +28.8%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 19.5%aged 10 and over26.8% in 201425.4% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 23.8%15.5% in 201430.6% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 46.8%aged 15 and over50.3% in 201420.6% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 96.8%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.99children per woman2.50 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 3.9%of people4.3% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.3people on average4.7 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 90.7%of settled households83.2% 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 | 1.7% | ||
| 1.9% | 70–74 | 1.6% | ||
| 3.2% | 65–69 | 2.3% | ||
| 4.0% | 60–64 | 3.9% | ||
| 4.8% | 55–59 | 4.2% | ||
| 5.5% | 50–54 | 5.5% | ||
| 5.6% | 45–49 | 6.3% | ||
| 7.3% | 40–44 | 6.5% | ||
| 7.7% | 35–39 | 7.8% | ||
| 7.8% | 30–34 | 8.4% | ||
| 7.1% | 25–29 | 8.8% | ||
| 7.2% | 20–24 | 8.6% | ||
| 7.4% | 15–19 | 8.0% | ||
| 9.8% | 10–14 | 9.0% | ||
| 10.6% | 5–9 | 9.0% | ||
| 8.7% | 0–4 | 8.3% | ||
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
- 26.8%aged 10 and over19.5% in 202435.2% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 15.5%23.8% in 202429.5% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 50.3%aged 15 and over46.8% in 202421.9% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 98.4%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.50children per woman1.99 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.3%of people3.9% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.7people on average4.3 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 83.2%of settled households90.7% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.9% | 75 and over | 1.4% | ||
| 0.9% | 70–74 | 0.8% | ||
| 1.2% | 65–69 | 0.9% | ||
| 2.8% | 60–64 | 2.3% | ||
| 3.8% | 55–59 | 2.6% | ||
| 5.2% | 50–54 | 4.6% | ||
| 5.7% | 45–49 | 5.2% | ||
| 7.0% | 40–44 | 6.4% | ||
| 7.3% | 35–39 | 7.9% | ||
| 8.3% | 30–34 | 8.3% | ||
| 8.5% | 25–29 | 9.7% | ||
| 9.3% | 20–24 | 10.5% | ||
| 9.3% | 15–19 | 9.6% | ||
| 9.0% | 10–14 | 9.3% | ||
| 9.3% | 5–9 | 9.4% | ||
| 11.7% | 0–4 | 11.0% | ||
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 Mers El Kheir’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 5,852
- Standing empty
- 12.7%6.6% vacant6.0% a second home
- Precarious
- 2.0%1.5% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 98.9%99.1% on the water mains99.1% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 2.6%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
- 77729.3 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 74095.2% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 1,7032.3 per business
- Public services
- 20
- Associations
- 17in 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.
| Mers El Kheir | 23,301 |
Douars
Mers El Kheir’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 2 douars in 2 fractions, with 3,243 people. Another 23,301 live in Mers El Kheir, 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 | ||||
| أولاد عكبةOulad Akba1 douar · 2,305 people | ||||||
| دوار ولاد عكبةDouar Oulad Akba | Dispersed | 470 | 2,305 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 2.3 |
| لولالدة ولاد عليانLoulaldat Oulad Alyane1 douar · 938 people | ||||||
| دوار الولالدة ولاد عليانDouar El Oulaldat Oulad Alyane | Dispersed | 204 | 938 | 2.7 | 5.8 | 6.1 |
Names in italics are spelt from the Arabic. How douars get their names
In the data
Files and code
- Code
04.501.05.03- As digits
045010503- Slug
mers-el-kheir- Census figures
/api/communes/04.501.05.03/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/04.501.05.03/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/04.501.05.03/housing.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/04.501.05.03/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/04.501.05.03/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2498872
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("mers-el-kheir");