Alaquines

Information and facts about the municipality of Alaquines

Location of Alaquines

The municipality of Alaquines is located in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí México

Population of Alaquines

The overall population of the municipality named Alaquines is 7831 citizens, 3839 males and 3992 females.

Age distribution

The population of Alaquines is divided into 3402 minors and 4429 adults, with 1166 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Alaquines

666 people in Alaquines live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 298 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 279 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 923 citizens of Alaquines.

Economic situation

In Alaquines about 1857 households are registered.

1837 of these households are common houses or apartments, 706 are without floor and about 64 consist of one room only.

1679 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 616 are connected to the public water supply, 1582 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 13 households to own a computer, 850 own a washing machine and 1388 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Alaquines

Besides the 926 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 140 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

1050 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 2750 persons did not finish the school. 840 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 303 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 270 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 5 years.