Santa Catarina

Information and facts about the municipality of Santa Catarina

Location of Santa Catarina

The municipality of Santa Catarina is located in the Mexican state of Nuevo León México

Population of Santa Catarina

The overall population of the municipality named Santa Catarina is 259896 citizens, 130061 males and 129835 females.

Age distribution

The population of Santa Catarina is divided into 97619 minors and 162277 adults, with 14011 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Santa Catarina

4088 people in Santa Catarina live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 2222 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 2163 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 186519 citizens of Santa Catarina.

Economic situation

In Santa Catarina about 61523 households are registered.

59407 of these households are common houses or apartments, 1279 are without floor and about 2102 consist of one room only.

56695 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 55324 are connected to the public water supply, 57358 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 12703 households to own a computer, 50959 own a washing machine and 57018 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Santa Catarina

Besides the 5062 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 1397 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

5294 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 53350 persons did not finish the school. 54934 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 57031 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 14178 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 9 years.