La Paz

Information and facts about the municipality of La Paz

Location of La Paz

The municipality of La Paz is located in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur México

Population of La Paz

The overall population of the municipality named La Paz is 219596 citizens, 109827 males and 109769 females.

Age distribution

The population of La Paz is divided into 80541 minors and 139055 adults, with 15490 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of La Paz

3974 people in La Paz live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 2133 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 25 and 1975 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 147942 citizens of La Paz.

Economic situation

In La Paz about 56531 households are registered.

58644 of these households are common houses or apartments, 2426 are without floor and about 3608 consist of one room only.

52988 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 50911 are connected to the public water supply, 53309 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 18083 households to own a computer, 37720 own a washing machine and 52510 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in La Paz

Besides the 3934 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 1064 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

5220 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 43006 persons did not finish the school. 29806 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 70619 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 20448 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 10 years.