Cortazar

Information and facts about the municipality of Cortazar

Location of Cortazar

The municipality of Cortazar is located in the Mexican state of Guanajuato México

Population of Cortazar

The overall population of the municipality named Cortazar is 83175 citizens, 39569 males and 43606 females.

Age distribution

The population of Cortazar is divided into 32453 minors and 50722 adults, with 7084 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Cortazar

319 people in Cortazar live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 140 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 124 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 41710 citizens of Cortazar.

Economic situation

In Cortazar about 19496 households are registered.

17396 of these households are common houses or apartments, 2127 are without floor and about 750 consist of one room only.

15863 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 16582 are connected to the public water supply, 16975 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 2228 households to own a computer, 12877 own a washing machine and 16679 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Cortazar

Besides the 5645 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 1042 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

5881 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 25117 persons did not finish the school. 12602 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 11726 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 4605 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.