Tampico

Information and facts about the municipality of Tampico

Location of Tampico

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

Population of Tampico

The overall population of the municipality named Tampico is 303924 citizens, 145475 males and 158449 females.

Age distribution

The population of Tampico is divided into 94562 minors and 209362 adults, with 30162 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Tampico

5789 people in Tampico live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 2950 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 9 and 2847 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 201750 citizens of Tampico.

Economic situation

In Tampico about 83312 households are registered.

83596 of these households are common houses or apartments, 1115 are without floor and about 7038 consist of one room only.

80226 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 79979 are connected to the public water supply, 80387 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 22003 households to own a computer, 64792 own a washing machine and 79626 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tampico

Besides the 5499 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 1154 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

6203 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 61642 persons did not finish the school. 43405 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 109295 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 27227 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 10 years.