Matamoros

Information and facts about the municipality of Matamoros

Location of Matamoros

The municipality of Matamoros is located in the Mexican state of Coahuila de Zaragoza México

Population of Matamoros

The overall population of the municipality named Matamoros is 99707 citizens, 49508 males and 50199 females.

Age distribution

The population of Matamoros is divided into 39839 minors and 59868 adults, with 7836 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Matamoros

231 people in Matamoros live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 108 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 102 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 57450 citizens of Matamoros.

Economic situation

In Matamoros about 23418 households are registered.

22764 of these households are common houses or apartments, 1351 are without floor and about 990 consist of one room only.

20696 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 21504 are connected to the public water supply, 22125 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 2264 households to own a computer, 17002 own a washing machine and 21935 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Matamoros

Besides the 4000 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 906 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

3943 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 26853 persons did not finish the school. 18683 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 15498 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 5190 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 8 years.