Colón

Information and facts about the municipality of Colón

Location of Colón

The municipality of Colón is located in the Mexican state of Querétaro Arteaga México

Population of Colón

The overall population of the municipality named Colón is 51625 citizens, 25496 males and 26129 females.

Age distribution

The population of Colón is divided into 23097 minors and 28528 adults, with 3555 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Colón

218 people in Colón live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 88 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 79 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 14249 citizens of Colón.

Economic situation

In Colón about 10877 households are registered.

9869 of these households are common houses or apartments, 1789 are without floor and about 968 consist of one room only.

7096 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 8773 are connected to the public water supply, 9539 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 453 households to own a computer, 3614 own a washing machine and 9132 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Colón

Besides the 4807 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 773 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

5491 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 15587 persons did not finish the school. 7412 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 3294 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2147 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.