Zaouiat Lakouacem

زاوية لقواسم

Rural commune in the cercle of Sidi Smail, province of El Jadida, Casablanca-Settat.

Population, 2024
11,490
Since 2014
+4.8%from 10,967 in 2014
Density
70.5people per km², 163 km²
Households
2,541
Foreign residents
18
Rank
638638th most populous of 1,503 communes22nd of 27 in its province

Next door in Ouled Frej, 69.2% of households have running water. Here, it’s 3.8%.

Since 2014, the share of people aged 15 and over in the labour force went from 47.4% to 34.5%. Across Morocco, the fall was 6 points.

Its closest match elsewhere in Morocco: Lagnadiz. Running water: 3.8% here, 5.5% there; can’t read or write: 49.8% here, 48.8% there; unemployment: 11.1% here, 10.2% there.

Compare it with Lagnadiz

Where it is

Its province, 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 Zaouiat Lakouacem.

Zaouiat Lakouacem +4.8%

Morocco +8.8%

People and homes

What the census found about the people and their homes. What each figure means · Glossary

Can’t read or write
49.8%aged 10 and over59.5% in 201459.7% among women24.8% across Morocco
Unemployment
11.1%5.5% in 201424.4% among women21.3% across Morocco
In the labour force
34.5%aged 15 and over47.4% in 20142.3% among women41.6% across Morocco
At school, aged 6 to 11
93.9%in 2023/2495.8% across Morocco
Fertility
2.35children per woman2.58 in 20141.97 across Morocco
Disability
6.7%of people3.4% in 20144.8% across Morocco
Household size
4.5people on average5.2 in 20143.9 across Morocco
Running water
3.8%of settled households3.7% in 201482.9% across Morocco

Age

Men and women by age, each as a share of their own.

Zaouiat Lakouacem: men and women by age, as a share of each
MenAgeWomen
3.0%75 and over4.6%
3.6%70–743.0%
4.2%65–694.7%
5.2%60–645.5%
4.4%55–594.8%
6.1%50–545.0%
6.8%45–496.4%
6.7%40–446.8%
5.7%35–396.7%
6.4%30–345.6%
5.5%25–294.9%
5.8%20–246.1%
8.3%15–198.2%
10.7%10–1410.2%
9.6%5–99.3%
8.0%0–48.1%

Local languages used

Many people use more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.

  • Darija98.5%
  • Tachelhit0.7%
  • Tamazight0.1%
  • Tarifit0.0%
  • Hassania0.0%
More census figures

Languages read and written

By those aged 10 and over who can read.

  • Arabic100.0%
  • French43.5%
  • English6.1%
  • Amazigh, in Tifinagh0.6%

Getting to work

How employed people get to work.

  • On foot53.7%
  • Doesn’t travel to work23.5%
  • Taxi4.8%
  • Bike or motorcycle4.6%
  • Private car3.5%
  • Informal transport3.4%
  • Bus1.9%
  • Another way1.9%
  • Employer’s transport1.5%
  • Animal1.1%
  • Train0.0%
  • Tram0.0%

Business and jobs

Every establishment the census mapped, and the businesses among them. What each count covers · Glossary

Establishments
15813.8 per 1,000 people35.4 across Morocco
Businesses
6239.2% of the establishments
Permanent jobs
711.1 per business
Public services
92
Associations
4in premises of their own
More business figures

Businesses by sector

Every sector but agriculture.

  • Commerce62.9%
  • Industry21.0%
  • Services16.1%
  • Construction0.0%

Businesses by the people they employ

By how many people work there.

  • One person88.7%
  • 2 to 39.7%
  • 4 to 91.6%
  • 10 to 490.0%
  • 50 and over0.0%

When the businesses were founded

The year the business was set up.

  • 2020 or later35.5%
  • 2011–201925.8%
  • 2001–201025.8%
  • 1991–20004.8%
  • 1981–19904.8%
  • 1956–19803.2%
  • Before 19560.0%

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 cooking with another fuel is 6.1%, among the highest 1% of communes of 5,000 people or more.

Estimate from a sample

Across the 7 communes it borders, the median is 0.5%. Laamria is furthest from it, at 0.0%.

Among rural communes of 5,000 to 20,000 people, it's in the top 1%.

How these are picked

Douars

Zaouiat Lakouacem’s villages and hamlets, as the 2024 census counted them: 21 douars in 5 fractions, with 11,490 people. What each figure counts

DouarKindHouseholdsPeopleDistance from home, km
Paved roadPrimary schoolHealth centre
لقواسمة الكواملةQouasma Kwamla7 douars · 2,828 people
المحمديينLemohamdieneGrouped582600.51.710.0
العتامنةLaatamnaDispersed1024782.82.813.0
الباكرةel BakraGrouped823841.62.814.3
الكواملة الفيضLakoumla LfaidGrouped672561.01.310.3
لمغاراتLamgharateGrouped1174631.73.014.5
السماعنةEssmanaGrouped1195721.13.011.7
الظهراتIddahrateGrouped1054150.72.512.7
الدراع القواسمDraa El Kouassem3 douars · 1,080 people
العويباتEl AouybatGrouped1105350.22.911.6
لخنيناتLakhninateDispersed923430.51.34.2
الدشيرةDchiraGrouped452020.11.21.1
عبارة القواسمAbbara El Kouassem5 douars · 3,218 people
الصمامدةSmamdaDispersed1828150.31.412.8
العيايدةLayaydaDispersed3131,5472.72.86.7
السفاراتEs-SifarateDispersed1256280.41.511.0
الطواجنةTouajnaGrouped321511.62.85.5
اولاد الخادير القواسمOulad El Khadir El KouassemGrouped2077———
لقواسم الجنوبيةLakouacem Janoubia3 douars · 1,805 people
بزاوةBzaouaGrouped1949460.72.817.2
اولاد سي علي بن عبد اللهOulad Si Ali Ben AbdellahGrouped612881.13.517.1
الكواملة الدراعKwamla DraaGrouped1445711.53.012.1
أولاد حمدان الحصيناتOulad Hamdane El Hassinat3 douars · 2,559 people
الحصيناتEl HassinatGrouped974250.71.83.6
لبعيجاتLabaijateGrouped1255580.21.74.9
أولاد حمدانOulad HamdaneGrouped3511,5760.32.05.0

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
06.181.09.23
As digits
061810923
Slug
zaouiat-lakouacem
OpenStreetMap
2822973
In JavaScript
import { getCommune } from "morocco-communes";

getCommune("zaouiat-lakouacem");

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