Oulmes
اولماس
Rural commune in the cercle of Oulmes, province of Khémisset, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra.
- Population, 2024
- 19,579
- Since 2014
- +4.2%from 18,786 in 2014
- Density
- 36.6people per km², 535.1 km²
- Households
- 5,562
- Foreign residents
- 3
- Rank
- 317317th most populous of 1,503 communes5th of 35 in its province
Next door in Bouqachmir, 8.2% of households have running water. Here, it’s 83.3%.
Since 2014, households with electricity went from 75.0% to 93.5%. Across Morocco, the rise was 6 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Itzer. Household size: 3.5 here, 3.6 there; read French: 61.4% here, 63.3% there; aged 0 to 14: 24.8% here, 25.1% there.
Where it is
Its province, shaded by density, and where that sits in Morocco.
Bordering communes
Postcode
15102
How it changed
Every commune, by how much it grew or shrank between the censuses. The line is Oulmes.
Oulmes +4.2%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 35.5%aged 10 and over46.6% in 201443.8% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 20.1%19.4% in 201432.3% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 38.7%aged 15 and over47.1% in 201413.5% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 90.5%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.64children per woman2.02 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.9%of people4.4% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 3.5people on average4.0 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 83.3%of settled households72.9% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9% | 75 and over | 4.3% | ||
| 2.8% | 70–74 | 2.7% | ||
| 3.9% | 65–69 | 3.5% | ||
| 4.7% | 60–64 | 4.9% | ||
| 4.8% | 55–59 | 4.7% | ||
| 6.1% | 50–54 | 6.0% | ||
| 6.8% | 45–49 | 6.8% | ||
| 7.0% | 40–44 | 7.7% | ||
| 6.4% | 35–39 | 6.9% | ||
| 7.0% | 30–34 | 6.8% | ||
| 6.0% | 25–29 | 6.6% | ||
| 7.0% | 20–24 | 7.5% | ||
| 8.4% | 15–19 | 8.1% | ||
| 9.7% | 10–14 | 9.0% | ||
| 9.2% | 5–9 | 7.9% | ||
| 7.4% | 0–4 | 6.5% | ||
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
- 46.6%aged 10 and over35.5% in 202456.0% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 19.4%20.1% in 202445.2% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 47.1%aged 15 and over38.7% in 202418.1% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 87.3%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.02children per woman1.64 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.4%of people4.9% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.0people on average3.5 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 72.9%of settled households83.3% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8% | 75 and over | 3.2% | ||
| 1.9% | 70–74 | 1.7% | ||
| 1.8% | 65–69 | 2.2% | ||
| 3.4% | 60–64 | 3.3% | ||
| 4.3% | 55–59 | 4.0% | ||
| 5.2% | 50–54 | 5.7% | ||
| 5.4% | 45–49 | 5.4% | ||
| 6.4% | 40–44 | 6.5% | ||
| 7.1% | 35–39 | 7.9% | ||
| 7.2% | 30–34 | 8.2% | ||
| 7.6% | 25–29 | 7.7% | ||
| 9.4% | 20–24 | 8.6% | ||
| 9.7% | 15–19 | 8.7% | ||
| 10.2% | 10–14 | 9.4% | ||
| 8.6% | 5–9 | 8.5% | ||
| 9.1% | 0–4 | 9.1% | ||
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 Oulmes’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 4,992
- Standing empty
- 18.3%9.0% vacant9.3% a second home
- Precarious
- 1.0%0.7% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 98.4%97.8% on the water mains97.8% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 1.4%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
- 65133.2 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 53181.6% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 1,5282.9 per business
- Public services
- 105
- Associations
- 15in premises of their own
- Weekly souks
- 2counted 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.
| Oulmes | 14,308 |
Douars
Oulmes’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 20 douars in 7 fractions, with 5,270 people. Another 14,308 live in Oulmes, its urban centre, which has no douars. One more isn’t in any douar: a nomad, or someone HCP counts apart, such as a soldier in barracks. What each figure counts
| Douar | Kind | Households | People | Distance from home, km | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paved road | Primary school | Health centre | ||||
| آيت شارطAit Chart4 douars · 1,561 people | ||||||
| آيت عطاAit Atta | In parts | 143 | 538 | 0.1 | 9.5 | 10.4 |
| أيت رحو أوعليAit Rahou Ali | In parts | 94 | 391 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 8.8 |
| اعروشنIarouchen | In parts | 77 | 310 | 0.3 | 6.9 | 12.6 |
| بوخلخالBoukhalkhal | In parts | 82 | 322 | 0.8 | 13.9 | 35.7 |
| أيت عبد السلامAit Abdessalam5 douars · 581 people | ||||||
| ايت منصورAit Mansour | Dispersed | 36 | 115 | 0.0 | 6.6 | 8.3 |
| ايت ايكوAit Ikkou | Dispersed | 36 | 131 | 0.0 | 3.4 | 11.7 |
| ايت باعقاAit Baakka | Dispersed | 51 | 217 | 0.5 | 4.9 | 4.9 |
| ايت بنعزوزAit Benazouz | Dispersed | 24 | 94 | — | — | — |
| ايت حماد اوغانمAit Ahmed Aoughanem | Grouped | 5 | 24 | — | — | — |
| ايت حدو اوسعيدAit Haddou Aousaid2 douars · 516 people | ||||||
| ايت عكي ترميلاتAit Akki Tarmilat | In parts | 70 | 251 | 0.1 | 4.9 | 13.0 |
| ايت الحاج ايكوجيلAit Lhaj Igoujile | In parts | 75 | 265 | 2.4 | 9.0 | 9.8 |
| آيت علاAit Alla3 douars · 840 people | ||||||
| ايت عمرAït Omar | In parts | 60 | 214 | 1.8 | 6.6 | 6.6 |
| ايت بوهوAit Bouhou | In parts | 32 | 125 | 1.1 | 7.2 | 7.2 |
| ايت حديدوAit Hadidou | In parts | 136 | 501 | 3.1 | 14.7 | 15.9 |
| ايت يحيى اوعيسىAit Yahya Ouissa2 douars · 553 people | ||||||
| ايت حسين اوبوهوAit Hcine Ou Bouhou | In parts | 22 | 78 | — | — | — |
| ايت عيسىAit Aissa | Dispersed | 121 | 475 | 1.7 | 6.7 | 6.7 |
| ازكيتAzkit3 douars · 321 people | ||||||
| ايت رحو اوعليAit Rahou Ali | Dispersed | 15 | 64 | — | — | — |
| ايت الحاج ايكوجيلAit El Haj Aykoujil | Dispersed | 37 | 143 | 0.5 | 4.7 | 30.7 |
| ايت عكي زكيتAit Akki Zkit | Dispersed | 27 | 114 | — | — | — |
| تارميلاتTarmilat1 douar · 898 people | ||||||
| مركز تارميلاتCentre Tarmilat | Grouped | 241 | 898 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 13.2 |
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
04.291.05.11- As digits
042910511- Slug
oulmes- Census figures
/api/communes/04.291.05.11/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/04.291.05.11/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/04.291.05.11/housing.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/04.291.05.11/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/04.291.05.11/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2808309
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("oulmes");