Chignahuapan

Information and facts about the municipality of Chignahuapan

Location of Chignahuapan

The municipality of Chignahuapan is located in the Mexican state of Puebla México

Population of Chignahuapan

The overall population of the municipality named Chignahuapan is 51536 citizens, 25023 males and 26513 females.

Age distribution

The population of Chignahuapan is divided into 22042 minors and 29494 adults, with 4358 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Chignahuapan

736 people in Chignahuapan live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 343 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 18 and 290 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 12901 citizens of Chignahuapan.

Economic situation

In Chignahuapan about 11873 households are registered.

11599 of these households are common houses or apartments, 2165 are without floor and about 798 consist of one room only.

10352 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 9578 are connected to the public water supply, 11095 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 640 households to own a computer, 3340 own a washing machine and 10061 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Chignahuapan

Besides the 5402 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 719 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

4963 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 16275 persons did not finish the school. 6671 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 4737 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2789 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.