Touarga
التواركة
Urban commune in the préfecture of Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra.
- Population, 2024
- 5,703
- Since 2014
- +45.0%from 3,932 in 2014
- Density
- 4,789people per km², 1.2 km²
- Households
- 785
- Rank
- 1,1371,137th most populous of 1,503 communes2nd of 2 in its préfecture
Since 2014, unemployment went from 19.8% to 6.3%. Across Morocco, the rise was 5 points.
Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Méchouar-Kasba. Aged 0 to 14: 15.0% here, 16.0% there; read French: 70.7% here, 71.4% there; in the labour force: 43.9% here, 43.8% there.
Compare it with Méchouar-Kasba
One of 6 communes where at least 1% of workers commute by tram.
Where it is
Its préfecture, shaded by density, and where that sits in Morocco.
Bordering communes
How it changed
Every commune, by how much it grew or shrank between the censuses. The line is Touarga.
Touarga +45.0%
People and homes
What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary
- Can’t read or write
- 7.7%aged 10 and over13.5% in 201411.6% among women24.8% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 6.3%19.8% in 20148.1% among women21.3% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 43.9%aged 15 and over54.5% in 201432.3% among women41.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 6 to 11
- 95.0%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.28children per woman1.16 in 20141.97 across Morocco
- Disability
- 1.8%of people4.8% in 20144.8% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.4people on average4.8 in 20143.9 across Morocco
- Running water
- 100.0%of settled households98.6% in 201482.9% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.8% | 75 and over | 9.5% | ||
| 4.4% | 70–74 | 5.5% | ||
| 5.2% | 65–69 | 7.6% | ||
| 6.4% | 60–64 | 8.6% | ||
| 6.8% | 55–59 | 7.9% | ||
| 7.1% | 50–54 | 7.2% | ||
| 6.2% | 45–49 | 6.2% | ||
| 6.6% | 40–44 | 6.3% | ||
| 6.4% | 35–39 | 6.1% | ||
| 6.9% | 30–34 | 6.4% | ||
| 7.3% | 25–29 | 6.4% | ||
| 7.5% | 20–24 | 4.3% | ||
| 6.8% | 15–19 | 4.3% | ||
| 5.7% | 10–14 | 4.4% | ||
| 6.1% | 5–9 | 5.0% | ||
| 4.7% | 0–4 | 4.3% | ||
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
- 13.5%aged 10 and over7.7% in 202419.8% among women32.2% across Morocco
- Unemployment
- 19.8%6.3% in 202426.0% among women16.2% across Morocco
- In the labour force
- 54.5%aged 15 and over43.9% in 202442.1% among women47.6% across Morocco
- At school, aged 7 to 12
- 100.0%95.1% across Morocco
- Fertility
- 1.16children per woman1.28 in 20242.22 across Morocco
- Disability
- 4.8%of people1.8% in 20245.1% across Morocco
- Household size
- 4.8people on average4.4 in 20244.6 across Morocco
- Running water
- 98.6%of settled households100.0% in 202473.0% across Morocco
Age
Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.
| Men | Age | Women | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.9% | 75 and over | 6.7% | ||
| 2.2% | 70–74 | 3.5% | ||
| 4.2% | 65–69 | 5.0% | ||
| 5.4% | 60–64 | 6.8% | ||
| 6.8% | 55–59 | 7.4% | ||
| 6.8% | 50–54 | 8.7% | ||
| 7.1% | 45–49 | 7.8% | ||
| 7.2% | 40–44 | 7.4% | ||
| 6.7% | 35–39 | 6.7% | ||
| 7.5% | 30–34 | 5.8% | ||
| 7.4% | 25–29 | 7.2% | ||
| 8.7% | 20–24 | 7.5% | ||
| 6.8% | 15–19 | 6.4% | ||
| 7.1% | 10–14 | 4.6% | ||
| 6.3% | 5–9 | 4.2% | ||
| 4.9% | 0–4 | 4.2% | ||
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 Touarga’s urban area, the empty ones too. Every share here is of those. What each figure counts · Glossary
- Dwellings
- 789
- Standing empty
- 4.4%4.3% vacant0.1% a second home
- Precarious
- 1.0%0.0% a slum or basic house
- On the sewer
- 99.5%100.0% on the water mains100.0% on the electricity grid
- Housing shortfall
- 5.0%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
- 8014.0 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
- Businesses
- 6986.3% of the establishments
- Permanent jobs
- 1121.6 per business
- Public services
- 10
- Associations
- 1in 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 that rent their home went from 74.7% in 2014 to 0.4% in 2024, against an average rise in other communes.
Across Morocco, the rise was one point.
The share of households housed some other way is 97.8%, among the highest 1% of communes of 5,000 people or more.
Of the communes it borders, only Rabat can be compared: 9.7%.
In 2014 it was 24.7%. Across Morocco, the rise was 2 points.
Among urban communes of 5,000 to 20,000 people, it's in the top 5%.
In the data
Files and code
- Code
04.421.01.07- As digits
044210107- Slug
touarga- Census figures
/api/communes/04.421.01.07/indicators.json- Business and jobs
/api/communes/04.421.01.07/economy.json- Urban dwellings
/api/communes/04.421.01.07/housing.json- Figures that stand out
/api/communes/04.421.01.07/insights.json- Bordering communes
/api/communes/04.421.01.07/neighbours.json- OpenStreetMap
- 2799195
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";
getCommune("touarga");