Ouled Frej
أولاد فرج
Rural commune in the cercle of Sidi Smail, province of El Jadida, Casablanca-Settat.
- Population, 2024
- 20,176
- Since 2014
- +2.2%from 19,752 in 2014
- Density
- 223people per km², 90.6 km²
- Households
- 4,900
- Foreign residents
- 51
- Rank
- 305305th most populous of 1,503 communes17th of 27 in its province
Next door in Chaibate, 2.6% of households have running water. Here, it’s 69.2%.
Since 2014, unemployment went from 10.6% to 22.2%. Across Morocco, the rise was 5 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Souk Sebt Ouled Nemma. Can’t read or write: 29.1% here, 27.2% there; higher education: 7.7% here, 8.1% there; Darija: 98.9% here, 98.6% there.
Where it is
Its province, shaded by density, and where that sits in Morocco.
Bordering communes
Postcode
24302
How it changed
Every commune, by how much it grew or shrank between the censuses. The line is Ouled Frej.
Ouled Frej +2.2%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 29.1%aged 10 and over34.3% in 201438.6% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 22.2%10.6% in 201423.3% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 38.2%aged 15 and over49.4% in 201412.2% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 95.8%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.27children per woman2.67 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.8%of people4.8% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.1people on average4.5 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 69.2%of settled households59.6% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5% | 75 and over | 3.2% | ||
| 2.7% | 70–74 | 2.7% | ||
| 3.0% | 65–69 | 3.4% | ||
| 4.6% | 60–64 | 3.9% | ||
| 4.5% | 55–59 | 4.4% | ||
| 5.9% | 50–54 | 5.7% | ||
| 6.6% | 45–49 | 6.3% | ||
| 6.4% | 40–44 | 6.7% | ||
| 6.1% | 35–39 | 6.1% | ||
| 6.2% | 30–34 | 6.4% | ||
| 5.7% | 25–29 | 6.4% | ||
| 7.0% | 20–24 | 7.4% | ||
| 9.5% | 15–19 | 8.9% | ||
| 10.8% | 10–14 | 10.5% | ||
| 10.2% | 5–9 | 9.6% | ||
| 8.2% | 0–4 | 8.2% | ||
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
- 34.3%aged 10 and over29.1% in 202445.4% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 10.6%22.2% in 202419.0% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 49.4%aged 15 and over38.2% in 202421.6% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 96.2%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.67children per woman2.27 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.8%of people4.8% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.5people on average4.1 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 59.6%of settled households69.2% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1% | 75 and over | 2.3% | ||
| 1.5% | 70–74 | 1.9% | ||
| 1.5% | 65–69 | 1.4% | ||
| 3.4% | 60–64 | 3.4% | ||
| 4.0% | 55–59 | 3.7% | ||
| 5.5% | 50–54 | 4.7% | ||
| 5.2% | 45–49 | 5.5% | ||
| 6.5% | 40–44 | 6.5% | ||
| 7.1% | 35–39 | 6.9% | ||
| 7.3% | 30–34 | 7.3% | ||
| 6.5% | 25–29 | 7.3% | ||
| 8.0% | 20–24 | 8.7% | ||
| 9.1% | 15–19 | 9.3% | ||
| 10.8% | 10–14 | 10.2% | ||
| 10.5% | 5–9 | 10.1% | ||
| 10.9% | 0–4 | 10.8% | ||
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 Ouled Frej’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 4,356
- Standing empty
- 24.1%8.6% vacant15.5% a second home
- Precarious
- 2.4%1.7% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 81.0%92.7% on the water mains95.0% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 3.1%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
- 1,08653.8 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 98090.2% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 1,6441.7 per business
- Public services
- 91
- Associations
- 15in 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.
| Ouled Frej | 13,607 |
Douars
Ouled Frej’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 21 douars in 3 fractions, with 6,523 people. Another 13,607 live in Ouled Frej, its urban centre, which has no douars. 46 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 | ||||
| اولاد الشيخ الوطىOulad Cheikh Louta13 douars · 2,944 people | ||||||
| الغوالمةLaghoualma | Dispersed | 64 | 322 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 6.5 |
| البزيواتBziouate | Grouped | 8 | 40 | — | — | — |
| اولاد الفقير عليOulad El Fakir Ali | Grouped | 65 | 255 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 10.5 |
| اولاد الغازيOulad El Ghzi | Dispersed | 89 | 420 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 7.4 |
| سواسةSouassa | Dispersed | 59 | 258 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 11.1 |
| العرابطةLaarabta | Grouped | 95 | 438 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 12.2 |
| اولاد نعامOulad N’ami | Dispersed | 46 | 195 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 15.6 |
| سواسة العزوبةSouassa El Azouba | Grouped | 21 | 92 | — | — | — |
| عين تالمستAin Talmest | Grouped | 11 | 46 | — | — | — |
| الطباطبة صنهاجةTbatba Sanhaja | Dispersed | 83 | 315 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 16.8 |
| الطباطبة اولاد العماريTbatba Oulad Laamari | Dispersed | 38 | 165 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 14.7 |
| اولاد عبد اللهOulad Abdellah | Dispersed | 24 | 137 | — | — | — |
| المحمديينLmouhammadiyine | Dispersed | 58 | 261 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 15.7 |
| اولاد الشيخ الوسطىOulad Cheikh El Ousseta6 douars · 3,449 people | ||||||
| اولاد اعجيلOulad Ajjil | Dispersed | 116 | 527 | 0.1 | 2.7 | 6.7 |
| البيادرةLabyadra | Dispersed | 171 | 762 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 4.8 |
| الكطارنةLagtarna | Dispersed | 50 | 217 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 4.0 |
| اولاد حجاجOulad Hajjaj | Grouped | 163 | 672 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.4 |
| الركعةErrkaa | Grouped | 105 | 477 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 3.0 |
| ميساوةMissaoua | Dispersed | 186 | 794 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 4.3 |
| مشيخة خارج الجماعةFraction outside the commune2 douars · 130 people | ||||||
| الدباغينEddbaghine | Grouped | 20 | 73 | — | — | — |
| لحطاطبةLahtatba | Grouped | 14 | 57 | — | — | — |
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
06.181.09.13- As digits
061810913- Slug
ouled-frej- Census figures
/api/communes/06.181.09.13/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/06.181.09.13/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/06.181.09.13/housing.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/06.181.09.13/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/06.181.09.13/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2822986
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("ouled-frej");