Zacatlán

Information and facts about the municipality of Zacatlán

Location of Zacatlán

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

Population of Zacatlán

The overall population of the municipality named Zacatlán is 69833 citizens, 33286 males and 36547 females.

Age distribution

The population of Zacatlán is divided into 30096 minors and 39737 adults, with 5907 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Zacatlán

12703 people in Zacatlán live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 7450 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 514 and 6670 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 21225 citizens of Zacatlán.

Economic situation

In Zacatlán about 16028 households are registered.

15460 of these households are common houses or apartments, 3377 are without floor and about 1160 consist of one room only.

14167 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 13039 are connected to the public water supply, 14735 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 1380 households to own a computer, 4302 own a washing machine and 12888 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Zacatlán

Besides the 6876 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 633 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

6441 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 18305 persons did not finish the school. 8916 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 10432 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 5485 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.