Tulum - Quintana Roo

Facts about Tulum

Location of Tulum

Tulum is located in the municipality of Solidaridad in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -87.465833
Latitude (dec): 20.211944

Height over sea level of Tulum

The locations medium height over sea level is 5 meters.

Population in Tulum

The over all population of Tulum is 14790 persons, 7575 of them are male and 7215 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 8323 minors and 6467 adults, with 267 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Tulum

5665 inhabitants of the location Tulum in Mexico live in indigenous households. 3000 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 32 people, while 2915 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 3704 citizens of Tulum.

Economic situation

In Tulum exist about 2860 households.

Of these households 3768 are common houses or apartments, 107 are without floor and about 1264 consist of one room only.

2593 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 2570 are connected to the public water supply, 2668 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 231 households to own a computer, 1756 own a washing machine and 2375 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tulum

Besides the 535 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 103 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

530 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 2632 persons did not finish the school. 2090 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 1801 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 516 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 8 years.