Jocotepec

Information and facts about the municipality of Jocotepec

Location of Jocotepec

The municipality of Jocotepec is located in the Mexican state of Jalisco México

Population of Jocotepec

The overall population of the municipality named Jocotepec is 37972 citizens, 18602 males and 19370 females.

Age distribution

The population of Jocotepec is divided into 16346 minors and 21626 adults, with 3628 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Jocotepec

178 people in Jocotepec live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 76 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 74 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 9800 citizens of Jocotepec.

Economic situation

In Jocotepec about 8331 households are registered.

8049 of these households are common houses or apartments, 623 are without floor and about 364 consist of one room only.

7430 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 7336 are connected to the public water supply, 7718 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 1011 households to own a computer, 5274 own a washing machine and 7514 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Jocotepec

Besides the 2033 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 689 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

2074 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 13519 persons did not finish the school. 3731 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 4568 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 1839 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.