Tuxtla Chico

Information and facts about the municipality of Tuxtla Chico

Location of Tuxtla Chico

The municipality of Tuxtla Chico is located in the Mexican state of Chiapas México

Population of Tuxtla Chico

The overall population of the municipality named Tuxtla Chico is 34101 citizens, 16676 males and 17425 females.

Age distribution

The population of Tuxtla Chico is divided into 14042 minors and 20059 adults, with 3057 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Tuxtla Chico

133 people in Tuxtla Chico live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 72 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 59 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 7659 citizens of Tuxtla Chico.

Economic situation

In Tuxtla Chico about 7569 households are registered.

7538 of these households are common houses or apartments, 2093 are without floor and about 1405 consist of one room only.

6264 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 3395 are connected to the public water supply, 7079 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 284 households to own a computer, 870 own a washing machine and 5888 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tuxtla Chico

Besides the 4674 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 336 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

4504 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 7801 persons did not finish the school. 4580 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 5288 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2740 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.