Tapachula

Information and facts about the municipality of Tapachula

Location of Tapachula

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

Population of Tapachula

The overall population of the municipality named Tapachula is 282420 citizens, 135873 males and 146547 females.

Age distribution

The population of Tapachula is divided into 113907 minors and 168513 adults, with 21092 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Tapachula

5865 people in Tapachula live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 2193 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 8 and 2030 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 113100 citizens of Tapachula.

Economic situation

In Tapachula about 66387 households are registered.

65717 of these households are common houses or apartments, 12954 are without floor and about 11625 consist of one room only.

59976 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 42505 are connected to the public water supply, 61718 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 7320 households to own a computer, 23296 own a washing machine and 56464 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tapachula

Besides the 21719 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 3612 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

23117 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 66679 persons did not finish the school. 35263 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 60735 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 23300 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 8 years.