Tonalá - Jalisco

Facts about Tonalá

Location of Tonalá

Tonalá is located in the municipality of Tonalá in the Mexican state of Jalisco with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -103.241111
Latitude (dec): 20.623611

Height over sea level of Tonalá

The locations medium height over sea level is 1660 meters.

Population in Tonalá

The over all population of Tonalá is 374258 persons, 184796 of them are male and 189462 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 166975 minors and 207283 adults, with 16162 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Tonalá

2616 inhabitants of the location Tonalá in Mexico live in indigenous households. 1266 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 5 people, while 1171 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 186706 citizens of Tonalá.

Economic situation

In Tonalá exist about 82211 households.

Of these households 80280 are common houses or apartments, 4637 are without floor and about 3174 consist of one room only.

75238 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 66885 are connected to the public water supply, 75779 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 14362 households to own a computer, 63100 own a washing machine and 75552 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tonalá

Besides the 9955 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 4659 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

11468 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 94477 persons did not finish the school. 62677 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 57875 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 21603 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 8 years.