Puerto Peñasco - Sonora

Facts about Puerto Peñasco

Location of Puerto Peñasco

Puerto Peñasco is located in the municipality of Puerto Peñasco in the Mexican state of Sonora with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -113.536944
Latitude (dec): 31.316667

Height over sea level of Puerto Peñasco

The locations medium height over sea level is 10 meters.

Population in Puerto Peñasco

The over all population of Puerto Peñasco is 44647 persons, 23196 of them are male and 21451 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 17264 minors and 27383 adults, with 2403 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Puerto Peñasco

1256 inhabitants of the location Puerto Peñasco in Mexico live in indigenous households. 672 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 1 people, while 638 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 28976 citizens of Puerto Peñasco.

Economic situation

In Puerto Peñasco exist about 11213 households.

Of these households 11186 are common houses or apartments, 487 are without floor and about 1159 consist of one room only.

10405 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 10275 are connected to the public water supply, 10264 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 2290 households to own a computer, 7848 own a washing machine and 10061 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Puerto Peñasco

Besides the 833 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 272 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

1199 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 11488 persons did not finish the school. 6903 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 9960 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2627 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 9 years.