Tonalá - Chiapas

Facts about Tonalá

Location of Tonalá

Tonalá is located in the municipality of Tonalá in the Mexican state of Chiapas with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -93.751389
Latitude (dec): 16.089444

Height over sea level of Tonalá

The locations medium height over sea level is 60 meters.

Population in Tonalá

The over all population of Tonalá is 31991 persons, 15104 of them are male and 16887 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 11937 minors and 20054 adults, with 3070 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Tonalá

408 inhabitants of the location Tonalá in Mexico live in indigenous households. 202 of the citizens 5 years and older, speak an indigenous language. The count of people who only speak an indigenous language without having knowledge of the Spanish language is 6 people, while 177 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 12430 citizens of Tonalá.

Economic situation

In Tonalá exist about 8424 households.

Of these households 8287 are common houses or apartments, 358 are without floor and about 1310 consist of one room only.

7899 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 6775 are connected to the public water supply, 8009 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 819 households to own a computer, 3852 own a washing machine and 7626 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tonalá

Besides the 2262 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 225 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

2303 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 7300 persons did not finish the school. 4100 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 8256 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2716 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 8 years.