El Fuerte

Information and facts about the municipality of El Fuerte

Location of El Fuerte

The municipality of El Fuerte is located in the Mexican state of Sinaloa México

Population of El Fuerte

The overall population of the municipality named El Fuerte is 92585 citizens, 46725 males and 45860 females.

Age distribution

The population of El Fuerte is divided into 35764 minors and 56821 adults, with 9896 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of El Fuerte

11530 people in El Fuerte live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 4857 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 1 and 4705 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 53457 citizens of El Fuerte.

Economic situation

In El Fuerte about 21485 households are registered.

21939 of these households are common houses or apartments, 5474 are without floor and about 2355 consist of one room only.

19543 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 18466 are connected to the public water supply, 20492 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 1329 households to own a computer, 10214 own a washing machine and 18982 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in El Fuerte

Besides the 5433 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 680 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

5105 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 29847 persons did not finish the school. 9800 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 16578 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 6746 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.