Zacatlán - Puebla

Facts about Zacatlán

Location of Zacatlán

Zacatlán is located in the municipality of Zacatlán in the Mexican state of Puebla with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -97.960556
Latitude (dec): 19.933333

Height over sea level of Zacatlán

The locations medium height over sea level is 2020 meters.

Population in Zacatlán

The over all population of Zacatlán is 30805 persons, 14433 of them are male and 16372 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 12487 minors and 18318 adults, with 2265 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Zacatlán

4067 inhabitants of the location Zacatlán in Mexico live in indigenous households. 1828 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 25 people, while 1711 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 11797 citizens of Zacatlán.

Economic situation

In Zacatlán exist about 7233 households.

Of these households 7001 are common houses or apartments, 631 are without floor and about 545 consist of one room only.

6759 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 6662 are connected to the public water supply, 6796 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 1232 households to own a computer, 3076 own a washing machine and 6510 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Zacatlán

Besides the 1717 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 141 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

1614 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 6571 persons did not finish the school. 4215 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 7648 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 3150 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 9 years.