Elota

Information and facts about the municipality of Elota

Location of Elota

The municipality of Elota is located in the Mexican state of Sinaloa México

Population of Elota

The overall population of the municipality named Elota is 46462 citizens, 24114 males and 22348 females.

Age distribution

The population of Elota is divided into 20689 minors and 25773 adults, with 3498 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Elota

5290 people in Elota live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 3747 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 65 and 3436 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 26846 citizens of Elota.

Economic situation

In Elota about 10782 households are registered.

10889 of these households are common houses or apartments, 723 are without floor and about 2677 consist of one room only.

8485 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 8524 are connected to the public water supply, 10378 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 544 households to own a computer, 5481 own a washing machine and 8263 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Elota

Besides the 4299 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 899 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

3977 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 14518 persons did not finish the school. 4181 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 5656 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2306 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.