Skhirate
الصخيرات
Urban commune in the préfecture of Skhirate-Témara, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra.
- Population, 2024
- 122,705
- Since 2014
- +105.3%from 59,775 in 2014
- Density
- 2,249people per km², 54.6 km²
- Households
- 32,031
- Foreign residents
- 324
- Rank
- 3333rd most populous of 1,503 communes2nd of 10 in its préfecture
Next door in Charrate, 21.7% of households are on the public sewer. Here, it’s 88.9%.
Since 2014, households in an apartment went from 2.7% to 61.9%. Across Morocco, the rise was 5 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Bni Yakhlef. In the labour force: 47.0% here, 46.5% there; higher education: 9.0% here, 10.3% there; running water: 97.6% here, 97.7% there.
One of 39 communes where at least 1% of workers commute by train.
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 Skhirate.
Skhirate +105.3%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 21.5%aged 10 and over27.8% in 201427.9% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 17.8%16.0% in 201421.0% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 47.0%aged 15 and over50.8% in 201423.8% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 95.6%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.92children per woman2.03 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.0%of people4.9% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 3.8people on average4.4 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 97.6%of settled households59.3% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7% | 75 and over | 2.1% | ||
| 2.2% | 70–74 | 1.9% | ||
| 3.2% | 65–69 | 2.8% | ||
| 4.3% | 60–64 | 4.6% | ||
| 4.3% | 55–59 | 4.7% | ||
| 5.5% | 50–54 | 5.6% | ||
| 6.1% | 45–49 | 6.5% | ||
| 7.1% | 40–44 | 7.0% | ||
| 7.5% | 35–39 | 7.6% | ||
| 7.8% | 30–34 | 8.2% | ||
| 7.1% | 25–29 | 8.1% | ||
| 7.5% | 20–24 | 8.2% | ||
| 7.9% | 15–19 | 7.5% | ||
| 9.6% | 10–14 | 8.7% | ||
| 9.7% | 5–9 | 8.7% | ||
| 8.3% | 0–4 | 7.8% | ||
Local languages used
Many people use more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
More census figures
Languages read and written
By those aged 10 and over who can read.
Getting to work
How employed people get to work.
- Can’t read or write
- 27.8%aged 10 and over21.5% in 202436.9% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 16.0%17.8% in 202427.3% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 50.8%aged 15 and over47.0% in 202424.8% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 97.0%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 2.03children per woman1.92 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.9%of people4.0% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.4people on average3.8 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 59.3%of settled households97.6% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5% | 75 and over | 1.7% | ||
| 1.1% | 70–74 | 1.3% | ||
| 1.5% | 65–69 | 1.8% | ||
| 2.9% | 60–64 | 2.8% | ||
| 3.9% | 55–59 | 3.4% | ||
| 5.1% | 50–54 | 5.2% | ||
| 5.5% | 45–49 | 5.7% | ||
| 6.7% | 40–44 | 6.3% | ||
| 7.8% | 35–39 | 7.9% | ||
| 8.9% | 30–34 | 8.7% | ||
| 9.2% | 25–29 | 9.4% | ||
| 9.0% | 20–24 | 10.1% | ||
| 8.6% | 15–19 | 8.5% | ||
| 8.5% | 10–14 | 8.4% | ||
| 9.0% | 5–9 | 8.6% | ||
| 10.8% | 0–4 | 10.3% | ||
Local languages used
Many people use more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
More census figures
Languages read and written
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 Skhirate’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 48,510
- Standing empty
- 35.6%17.2% vacant18.4% a second home
- Precarious
- 1.6%0.3% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 85.3%95.3% on the water mains95.5% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 2.3%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
- 2,36519.3 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 2,22294.0% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 18,5338.3 per business
- Public services
- 104
- Associations
- 39in premises of their own
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 went from 2.7% in 2014 to 61.9% in 2024, a far bigger rise than in other communes.
Across the 4 communes it borders, the median since 2014 is +11.8 points. Sabbah is furthest from it, at 0.0 points.
Across Morocco, the rise was 5 points.
Among urban communes of over 20,000 people, it's in the top 5%.
The share of households living in an apartment is 61.9%, among the highest 1% of communes of 5,000 people or more.
Across the 4 communes it borders, the median is 22.9%. Sabbah is furthest from it, at 0.0%.
In 2014 it was 2.7%. Across Morocco, the rise was 5 points.
Among urban communes of over 20,000 people, it's in the top 5%.
The share of households living in a basic house or a slum went from 35.6% in 2014 to 0.5% in 2024, a far bigger fall than in other communes.
Across the 4 communes it borders, the median since 2014 is −13.1 points. Charrate is furthest from it, at −7.8 points.
Across Morocco, the fall was one point.
In the data
Files and code
- Code
04.501.01.05- As digits
045010105- Slug
skhirate- Census figures
/api/communes/04.501.01.05/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/04.501.01.05/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/04.501.01.05/housing.json- Figures that stand out
/api/communes/04.501.01.05/insights.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/04.501.01.05/neighbours.json- Neighbourhoods and postcodes
/api/communes/04.501.01.05/neighbourhoods.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2498873
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("skhirate");