Piedras Negras

Information and facts about the municipality of Piedras Negras

Location of Piedras Negras

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

Population of Piedras Negras

The overall population of the municipality named Piedras Negras is 143915 citizens, 71489 males and 72426 females.

Age distribution

The population of Piedras Negras is divided into 57924 minors and 85991 adults, with 9724 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Piedras Negras

750 people in Piedras Negras live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 355 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 339 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 101712 citizens of Piedras Negras.

Economic situation

In Piedras Negras about 36838 households are registered.

37254 of these households are common houses or apartments, 579 are without floor and about 1370 consist of one room only.

35390 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 35181 are connected to the public water supply, 35819 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 8032 households to own a computer, 30469 own a washing machine and 35523 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Piedras Negras

Besides the 2478 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 1109 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

3097 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 33888 persons did not finish the school. 24909 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 30848 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 8579 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 9 years.