Sidi Yahya Zaer
سيدي يحيى زعير
Rural commune in the cercle of Ain El Aouda, préfecture of Skhirate-Témara, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra.
- Population, 2024
- 116,649
- Since 2014
- +101.9%from 57,790 in 2014
- Density
- 194people per km², 602.3 km²
- Households
- 29,368
- Foreign residents
- 829
- Rank
- 3535th most populous of 1,503 communes3rd of 10 in its préfecture
Next door in Oumazza, 0.5% of households are on the public sewer. Here, it’s 88.6%.
Since 2014, households in an apartment went from 46.6% to 79.3%. Across Morocco, the rise was 5 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Had Soualem. Can’t read or write: 16.4% here, 15.8% there; aged 65 and over: 4.8% here, 5.2% there; in the labour force: 49.5% here, 47.8% there.
One of 50 communes where at least 0.5% of residents are foreign.
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 Sidi Yahya Zaer.
Sidi Yahya Zaer +101.9%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 16.4%aged 10 and over29.3% in 201421.8% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 15.6%11.7% in 201421.3% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 49.5%aged 15 and over53.9% in 201425.8% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 97.1%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.81children per woman2.73 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 2.4%of people3.2% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 3.8people on average4.2 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 90.3%of settled households59.5% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1% | 75 and over | 1.6% | ||
| 1.3% | 70–74 | 1.2% | ||
| 2.2% | 65–69 | 2.0% | ||
| 3.7% | 60–64 | 3.1% | ||
| 4.5% | 55–59 | 3.7% | ||
| 6.0% | 50–54 | 5.3% | ||
| 7.4% | 45–49 | 6.7% | ||
| 8.1% | 40–44 | 8.3% | ||
| 7.3% | 35–39 | 8.4% | ||
| 6.7% | 30–34 | 8.4% | ||
| 5.9% | 25–29 | 7.5% | ||
| 7.0% | 20–24 | 7.6% | ||
| 8.6% | 15–19 | 7.9% | ||
| 10.8% | 10–14 | 9.9% | ||
| 10.5% | 5–9 | 10.0% | ||
| 8.8% | 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
- 29.3%aged 10 and over16.4% in 202437.5% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 11.7%15.6% in 202425.0% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 53.9%aged 15 and over49.5% in 202424.4% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 96.0%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.73children per woman1.81 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 3.2%of people2.4% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.2people on average3.8 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 59.5%of settled households90.3% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2% | 75 and over | 1.4% | ||
| 0.8% | 70–74 | 1.1% | ||
| 1.0% | 65–69 | 1.2% | ||
| 2.0% | 60–64 | 2.0% | ||
| 2.8% | 55–59 | 2.6% | ||
| 4.5% | 50–54 | 3.7% | ||
| 5.7% | 45–49 | 4.7% | ||
| 7.6% | 40–44 | 6.5% | ||
| 8.5% | 35–39 | 8.4% | ||
| 9.2% | 30–34 | 9.6% | ||
| 8.1% | 25–29 | 9.6% | ||
| 8.4% | 20–24 | 9.5% | ||
| 8.1% | 15–19 | 8.1% | ||
| 9.6% | 10–14 | 9.3% | ||
| 10.3% | 5–9 | 10.1% | ||
| 12.3% | 0–4 | 12.2% | ||
Local languages used
Many people use more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
More census figures
Languages read and written
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 Sidi Yahya Zaer’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 42,112
- Standing empty
- 38.9%23.2% vacant15.7% a second home
- Precarious
- 0.7%0.2% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 99.5%98.1% on the water mains98.2% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 1.2%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
- 1,59513.7 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 1,40888.3% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 4,1462.9 per business
- Public services
- 160
- Associations
- 27in 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 households living in an apartment is 79.3%, among the highest 1% of communes of 5,000 people or more.
Across the 11 communes it borders, the median is 6.5%. Marchouch is furthest from it, at 0.0%.
In 2014 it was 46.6%. Across Morocco, the rise was 5 points.
Among rural communes of over 20,000 people, it's in the top 1%.
The share of households living in an apartment went from 46.6% in 2014 to 79.3% in 2024, a far bigger rise than in other communes.
Across 10 of the 11 communes it borders, the median since 2014 is +3.1 points. Marchouch is furthest from it, at −0.4 points.
Across Morocco, the rise was 5 points.
Among rural communes of over 20,000 people, it's in the top 1%.
Urban centres
Towns inside the commune that the census counts on their own.
| Sidi Yahya Zaer | 12,315 |
| Tamesna | 86,851 |
Douars
Sidi Yahya Zaer’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 25 douars in 14 fractions, with 14,396 people. Another 99,166 live in Sidi Yahya Zaer and Tamesna, its urban centres, which have no douars. 3,087 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 | ||||
| الرمامحةErrmamha2 douars · 1,251 people | ||||||
| أولاد سعيدOulad Said | Dispersed | 129 | 573 | 2.5 | 5.9 | 31.4 |
| أولاد عزوزOulad Azzouz | Dispersed | 150 | 678 | 1.9 | 5.6 | 17.2 |
| شكران اولاد الدليمChograne Oulad Eddlim1 douar · 938 people | ||||||
| أولاد دليمOulad Dlim | Dispersed | 211 | 938 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 24.5 |
| العبادلةEl Abadla4 douars · 974 people | ||||||
| الكدادرةLegdadra | Dispersed | 51 | 224 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 23.2 |
| أولاد سليمانOulad Slimane | Dispersed | 38 | 205 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 25.0 |
| أولاد رايكOulad Eruk | Dispersed | 72 | 291 | 0.7 | 5.2 | 23.7 |
| أولاد سعادةOulad Saada | Dispersed | 55 | 254 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 23.6 |
| المعاكلة الشرقيةEl Maakla Charqia1 douar · 1,090 people | ||||||
| المعاكلةEl Maakla | Dispersed | 236 | 1,090 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 1.9 |
| أولاد سالمOulad Salem1 douar · 974 people | ||||||
| أولاد سالمOulad Salem | Dispersed | 227 | 974 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 22.2 |
| شكران أولاد داوودChograne Oulad Daoud1 douar · 701 people | ||||||
| أولاد داوودOulad Daoud | Dispersed | 134 | 701 | 3.1 | 5.1 | 29.5 |
| الحوامد الغربيينEl Houamed Lgharbiyine5 douars · 1,174 people | ||||||
| طويلعات الحجاجTouylaat El Hajjaj | Dispersed | 55 | 262 | 1.2 | 5.8 | 30.7 |
| عركوب الضروArkoub Eddrou | Dispersed | 77 | 348 | 2.4 | 3.5 | 25.9 |
| النبكةEnnbka | Dispersed | 10 | 43 | — | — | — |
| الحاشيةEl Hachia | Grouped | 74 | 364 | 3.1 | 5.5 | 17.2 |
| الدويميةEddouymia | Dispersed | 38 | 157 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 25.0 |
| الحوامد الشرقيينEl Houamed Echarqiyine3 douars · 1,231 people | ||||||
| الشريشيرةEcchrichira | Dispersed | 151 | 659 | 4.1 | 5.9 | 22.4 |
| المخاليفLemkhalif | Dispersed | 66 | 301 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 11.7 |
| الكنطرةEl Kntra | Dispersed | 63 | 271 | 3.4 | 8.2 | 20.4 |
| الكواودةLegouaouda2 douars · 515 people | ||||||
| الكواودةLegouaouda | Dispersed | 76 | 326 | 1.5 | 3.7 | 16.4 |
| عين الريبعةAin Ribaa | Dispersed | 42 | 189 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 7.9 |
| ضاية أعرابDayat Aarab1 douar · 815 people | ||||||
| ضاية أعرابDayat Aarab | Dispersed | 171 | 815 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 4.6 |
| العوناتAwnat1 douar · 814 people | ||||||
| العوناتAwnat | Dispersed | 164 | 814 | 2.4 | 4.0 | 19.9 |
| أولاد ملوكOulad Mallouk1 douar · 1,939 people | ||||||
| أولاد ملوكOulad Mallouk | Dispersed | 445 | 1,939 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 8.0 |
| أحواز الرمايليةAhouaz Errmaylia1 douar · 911 people | ||||||
| الرميليةErrmilia | Dispersed | 203 | 911 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 3.2 |
| المعاكلة الغربيةEl Maakla Gharbia1 douar · 1,069 people | ||||||
| المعاكلة الغربيةEl Maakla Gharbia | Dispersed | 245 | 1,069 | 1.2 | 4.1 | 6.2 |
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
04.501.03.11- As digits
045010311- Slug
sidi-yahya-zaer- Census figures
/api/communes/04.501.03.11/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/04.501.03.11/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/04.501.03.11/housing.json- Figures that stand out
/api/communes/04.501.03.11/insights.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/04.501.03.11/neighbours.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2498869
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("sidi-yahya-zaer");