Apatzingán

Information and facts about the municipality of Apatzingán

Location of Apatzingán

The municipality of Apatzingán is located in the Mexican state of Michoacán de Ocampo México

Population of Apatzingán

The overall population of the municipality named Apatzingán is 115078 citizens, 56172 males and 58906 females.

Age distribution

The population of Apatzingán is divided into 49023 minors and 66055 adults, with 8827 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Apatzingán

905 people in Apatzingán live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 383 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 2 and 356 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 28223 citizens of Apatzingán.

Economic situation

In Apatzingán about 26885 households are registered.

26387 of these households are common houses or apartments, 5647 are without floor and about 2782 consist of one room only.

23862 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 23872 are connected to the public water supply, 25337 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 2649 households to own a computer, 18275 own a washing machine and 24624 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Apatzingán

Besides the 10494 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 2237 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

12462 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 32761 persons did not finish the school. 13170 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 14881 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 6404 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.