La Paz

Information and facts about the municipality of La Paz

Location of La Paz

The municipality of La Paz is located in the Mexican state of México México

Population of La Paz

The overall population of the municipality named La Paz is 232546 citizens, 114004 males and 118542 females.

Age distribution

The population of La Paz is divided into 94685 minors and 137861 adults, with 11705 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of La Paz

13620 people in La Paz live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 5397 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 17 and 5218 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 93758 citizens of La Paz.

Economic situation

In La Paz about 54703 households are registered.

54551 of these households are common houses or apartments, 3350 are without floor and about 7432 consist of one room only.

51679 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 46709 are connected to the public water supply, 51981 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 8917 households to own a computer, 33651 own a washing machine and 51157 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in La Paz

Besides the 6601 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 1732 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

7548 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 53782 persons did not finish the school. 42088 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 46287 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 15400 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 8 years.