Jocotitlán

Information and facts about the municipality of Jocotitlán

Location of Jocotitlán

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

Population of Jocotitlán

The overall population of the municipality named Jocotitlán is 55403 citizens, 26786 males and 28617 females.

Age distribution

The population of Jocotitlán is divided into 22896 minors and 32507 adults, with 4170 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Jocotitlán

3639 people in Jocotitlán live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 1408 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 1 and 1265 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 16300 citizens of Jocotitlán.

Economic situation

In Jocotitlán about 12490 households are registered.

12566 of these households are common houses or apartments, 1000 are without floor and about 730 consist of one room only.

9603 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 11029 are connected to the public water supply, 11885 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 1247 households to own a computer, 3767 own a washing machine and 10985 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Jocotitlán

Besides the 3141 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 422 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

2925 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 14336 persons did not finish the school. 9077 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 8929 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 3926 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 8 years.