Ruíz

Information and facts about the municipality of Ruíz

Location of Ruíz

The municipality of Ruíz is located in the Mexican state of Nayarit México

Population of Ruíz

The overall population of the municipality named Ruíz is 20996 citizens, 10489 males and 10507 females.

Age distribution

The population of Ruíz is divided into 8629 minors and 12367 adults, with 2231 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Ruíz

2969 people in Ruíz live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 2055 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 114 and 1907 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 11853 citizens of Ruíz.

Economic situation

In Ruíz about 5285 households are registered.

5281 of these households are common houses or apartments, 714 are without floor and about 473 consist of one room only.

4468 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 4582 are connected to the public water supply, 4849 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 312 households to own a computer, 2906 own a washing machine and 4528 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Ruíz

Besides the 1788 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 248 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

1758 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 5712 persons did not finish the school. 3123 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 3046 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 1215 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.