Matamoros

Information and facts about the municipality of Matamoros

Location of Matamoros

The municipality of Matamoros is located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas México

Population of Matamoros

The overall population of the municipality named Matamoros is 462157 citizens, 227932 males and 234225 females.

Age distribution

The population of Matamoros is divided into 182241 minors and 279916 adults, with 29545 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Matamoros

7795 people in Matamoros live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 3500 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 7 and 3347 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 305420 citizens of Matamoros.

Economic situation

In Matamoros about 118453 households are registered.

120139 of these households are common houses or apartments, 4378 are without floor and about 12250 consist of one room only.

113412 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 107203 are connected to the public water supply, 111210 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 20042 households to own a computer, 73067 own a washing machine and 110730 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Matamoros

Besides the 11344 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 3332 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

12619 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 110856 persons did not finish the school. 74918 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 100679 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 29884 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 9 years.