Moulay Bousselham
مولاي بوسلهام
Rural commune in the cercle of Lalla Mimouna, province of Kénitra, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra.
- Population, 2024
- 32,643
- Since 2014
- +22.7%from 26,608 in 2014
- Density
- 275people per km², 118.6 km²
- Households
- 7,358
- Foreign residents
- 24
- Rank
- 168168th most populous of 1,503 communes13th of 23 in its province
Next door in Lalla Mimouna, 47.4% of households have running water. Here, it’s 15.4%.
Since 2014, households that own their home went from 87.7% to 73.5%. Across Morocco, the fall was 2 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Ouaouzgane. Aged 65 and over: 5.2% here, 5.4% there; running water: 15.4% here, 2.5% there; unemployment: 8.8% here, 8.7% 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 Moulay Bousselham.
Moulay Bousselham +22.7%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 35.6%aged 10 and over48.8% in 201446.0% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 8.8%6.9% in 20149.5% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 51.1%aged 15 and over55.4% in 201425.6% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 91.9%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.14children per woman2.32 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 3.8%of people3.6% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.4people on average5.3 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 15.4%of settled households24.6% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5% | 75 and over | 1.4% | ||
| 1.8% | 70–74 | 1.5% | ||
| 2.4% | 65–69 | 1.9% | ||
| 3.1% | 60–64 | 3.6% | ||
| 3.1% | 55–59 | 3.2% | ||
| 4.5% | 50–54 | 4.4% | ||
| 5.0% | 45–49 | 5.2% | ||
| 6.9% | 40–44 | 6.9% | ||
| 7.6% | 35–39 | 8.3% | ||
| 7.0% | 30–34 | 8.2% | ||
| 6.7% | 25–29 | 7.5% | ||
| 7.6% | 20–24 | 7.9% | ||
| 9.2% | 15–19 | 8.6% | ||
| 11.2% | 10–14 | 10.7% | ||
| 11.9% | 5–9 | 11.1% | ||
| 10.5% | 0–4 | 9.5% | ||
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
- 48.8%aged 10 and over35.6% in 202461.4% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 6.9%8.8% in 202412.8% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 55.4%aged 15 and over51.1% in 202427.0% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 88.5%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.32children per woman2.14 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 3.6%of people3.8% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 5.3people on average4.4 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 24.6%of settled households15.4% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1% | 75 and over | 1.2% | ||
| 1.2% | 70–74 | 0.9% | ||
| 1.5% | 65–69 | 1.1% | ||
| 2.6% | 60–64 | 2.3% | ||
| 3.2% | 55–59 | 2.6% | ||
| 4.0% | 50–54 | 4.3% | ||
| 4.0% | 45–49 | 4.5% | ||
| 5.3% | 40–44 | 5.3% | ||
| 6.3% | 35–39 | 6.3% | ||
| 7.8% | 30–34 | 8.2% | ||
| 9.7% | 25–29 | 10.3% | ||
| 10.1% | 20–24 | 10.7% | ||
| 9.2% | 15–19 | 9.4% | ||
| 10.9% | 10–14 | 10.1% | ||
| 11.0% | 5–9 | 10.9% | ||
| 12.3% | 0–4 | 11.8% | ||
Local languages used
Many people use more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
More census figures
Languages read and written
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 Moulay Bousselham’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 4,838
- Standing empty
- 55.9%6.7% vacant49.2% a second home
- Precarious
- 2.4%1.0% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 2.1%64.5% on the water mains93.9% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 5.5%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
- 97029.7 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 88491.1% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 1,9592.2 per business
- Public services
- 80
- Associations
- 6in 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 that are villas is 33.1%, among the highest 1% of communes of 5,000 people or more.
Of the communes it borders, only Lalla Mimouna can be compared: 0.1%.
Urban centres
Towns inside the commune that the census counts on their own.
| Moulay Bousselham | 8,642 |
Douars
Moulay Bousselham’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 7 douars in 3 fractions, with 23,987 people. Another 8,642 live in Moulay Bousselham, its urban centre, which has no douars. 14 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 | ||||
| صيبارةSibara3 douars · 5,347 people | ||||||
| اولاد رافعOuled Rafaa | In parts | 500 | 2,395 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 7.0 |
| صيبارةSibara | In parts | 321 | 1,439 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 4.0 |
| الشوافعChouafa | In parts | 296 | 1,513 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 7.2 |
| الدلالحةDlalha3 douars · 16,921 people | ||||||
| الكساكسةLeksaksa | In parts | 314 | 1,816 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 4.4 |
| الدلالحةDlalha | In parts | 2,085 | 9,516 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 9.3 |
| اولاد اعݣيلOulad Aguil | In parts | 1,217 | 5,589 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 8.2 |
| الدلالحةDlalha1 douar · 1,719 people | ||||||
| الدلالحةDlalha | In parts | 401 | 1,719 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 2.1 |
Names in italics are spelt from the Arabic. How douars get their names
In the data
Files and code
- Code
04.281.11.07- As digits
042811107- Slug
moulay-bousselham- Census figures
/api/communes/04.281.11.07/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/04.281.11.07/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/04.281.11.07/housing.json- Figures that stand out
/api/communes/04.281.11.07/insights.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/04.281.11.07/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/04.281.11.07/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2753074
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("moulay-bousselham");