Ocosingo

Information and facts about the municipality of Ocosingo

Location of Ocosingo

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

Population of Ocosingo

The overall population of the municipality named Ocosingo is 170280 citizens, 85082 males and 85198 females.

Age distribution

The population of Ocosingo is divided into 100180 minors and 70100 adults, with 6108 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Ocosingo

131424 people in Ocosingo live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 101617 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 24300 and 76033 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 11251 citizens of Ocosingo.

Economic situation

In Ocosingo about 27169 households are registered.

30252 of these households are common houses or apartments, 14486 are without floor and about 2481 consist of one room only.

21785 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 16761 are connected to the public water supply, 21700 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 768 households to own a computer, 1990 own a washing machine and 9598 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Ocosingo

Besides the 25848 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 4017 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

23760 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 36320 persons did not finish the school. 9716 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 10139 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 9538 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 5 years.