Charcas

Information and facts about the municipality of Charcas

Location of Charcas

The municipality of Charcas is located in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí México

Population of Charcas

The overall population of the municipality named Charcas is 20173 citizens, 9855 males and 10318 females.

Age distribution

The population of Charcas is divided into 7916 minors and 12257 adults, with 2436 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Charcas

90 people in Charcas live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 46 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 41 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 9796 citizens of Charcas.

Economic situation

In Charcas about 4943 households are registered.

4899 of these households are common houses or apartments, 915 are without floor and about 183 consist of one room only.

4439 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 3501 are connected to the public water supply, 4137 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 287 households to own a computer, 2152 own a washing machine and 3946 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Charcas

Besides the 1762 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 184 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

1717 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 5985 persons did not finish the school. 3604 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 1832 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 847 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.