Tochtepec

Information and facts about the municipality of Tochtepec

Location of Tochtepec

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

Population of Tochtepec

The overall population of the municipality named Tochtepec is 18205 citizens, 8615 males and 9590 females.

Age distribution

The population of Tochtepec is divided into 8068 minors and 10137 adults, with 1419 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Tochtepec

171 people in Tochtepec live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 73 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 68 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 4760 citizens of Tochtepec.

Economic situation

In Tochtepec about 3996 households are registered.

3851 of these households are common houses or apartments, 500 are without floor and about 451 consist of one room only.

3215 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 3042 are connected to the public water supply, 3773 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 147 households to own a computer, 1398 own a washing machine and 3493 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tochtepec

Besides the 1241 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 252 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

973 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 5984 persons did not finish the school. 2399 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 1838 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 1036 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.