Río Grande - Zacatecas

Facts about Río Grande

Location of Río Grande

Río Grande is located in the municipality of Río Grande in the Mexican state of Zacatecas with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -103.036389
Latitude (dec): 23.822500

Height over sea level of Río Grande

The locations medium height over sea level is 1860 meters.

Population in Río Grande

The over all population of Río Grande is 29309 persons, 13960 of them are male and 15349 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 11686 minors and 17623 adults, with 2502 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Río Grande

182 inhabitants of the location Río Grande in Mexico live in indigenous households. 87 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 0 people, while 83 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 12580 citizens of Río Grande.

Economic situation

In Río Grande exist about 7084 households.

Of these households 7047 are common houses or apartments, 211 are without floor and about 254 consist of one room only.

6744 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 6858 are connected to the public water supply, 6888 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 1496 households to own a computer, 5492 own a washing machine and 6789 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Río Grande

Besides the 860 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 259 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

1009 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 8468 persons did not finish the school. 3324 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 6591 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2246 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 8 years.