Mazatán

Information and facts about the municipality of Mazatán

Location of Mazatán

The municipality of Mazatán is located in the Mexican state of Chiapas México

Population of Mazatán

The overall population of the municipality named Mazatán is 24017 citizens, 11994 males and 12023 females.

Age distribution

The population of Mazatán is divided into 9677 minors and 14340 adults, with 2220 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Mazatán

121 people in Mazatán live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 84 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 78 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 6571 citizens of Mazatán.

Economic situation

In Mazatán about 5905 households are registered.

5765 of these households are common houses or apartments, 1794 are without floor and about 1101 consist of one room only.

4998 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 1089 are connected to the public water supply, 5487 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 91 households to own a computer, 1702 own a washing machine and 4693 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Mazatán

Besides the 2653 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 307 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

2620 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 7038 persons did not finish the school. 3132 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 2988 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 1658 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.