Monterrey - Nuevo León

Facts about Monterrey

Location of Monterrey

Monterrey is located in the municipality of Monterrey in the Mexican state of Nuevo León with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -100.308611
Latitude (dec): 25.671389

Height over sea level of Monterrey

The locations medium height over sea level is 530 meters.

Population in Monterrey

The over all population of Monterrey is 1133070 persons, 559525 of them are male and 573545 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 371941 minors and 761129 adults, with 116180 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Monterrey

15342 inhabitants of the location Monterrey in Mexico live in indigenous households. 10054 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 10 people, while 9757 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 746281 citizens of Monterrey.

Economic situation

In Monterrey exist about 276390 households.

Of these households 271353 are common houses or apartments, 3964 are without floor and about 10495 consist of one room only.

255061 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 256006 are connected to the public water supply, 258645 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 80239 households to own a computer, 230088 own a washing machine and 257456 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Monterrey

Besides the 22396 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 6346 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

26918 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 223181 persons did not finish the school. 193588 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 352276 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 78910 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 10 years.