Chalco

Information and facts about the municipality of Chalco

Location of Chalco

The municipality of Chalco is located in the Mexican state of México México

Population of Chalco

The overall population of the municipality named Chalco is 257403 citizens, 125586 males and 131817 females.

Age distribution

The population of Chalco is divided into 112749 minors and 144654 adults, with 12066 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Chalco

10720 people in Chalco live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 5057 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 25 and 4885 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 81320 citizens of Chalco.

Economic situation

In Chalco about 54769 households are registered.

55201 of these households are common houses or apartments, 5635 are without floor and about 5833 consist of one room only.

51116 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 48119 are connected to the public water supply, 51591 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 6994 households to own a computer, 31422 own a washing machine and 50394 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Chalco

Besides the 9416 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 2109 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

9926 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 59514 persons did not finish the school. 48743 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 42108 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 17192 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 8 years.