Cárdenas

Information and facts about the municipality of Cárdenas

Location of Cárdenas

The municipality of Cárdenas is located in the Mexican state of Tabasco México

Population of Cárdenas

The overall population of the municipality named Cárdenas is 219563 citizens, 107557 males and 112006 females.

Age distribution

The population of Cárdenas is divided into 94442 minors and 125121 adults, with 13491 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Cárdenas

2027 people in Cárdenas live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 820 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 4 and 749 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 138904 citizens of Cárdenas.

Economic situation

In Cárdenas about 51082 households are registered.

50071 of these households are common houses or apartments, 5285 are without floor and about 6409 consist of one room only.

45760 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 30934 are connected to the public water supply, 48257 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 4757 households to own a computer, 29911 own a washing machine and 42989 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Cárdenas

Besides the 12930 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 2803 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

11556 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 60316 persons did not finish the school. 32868 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 34597 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 15871 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.