Cárdenas

Information and facts about the municipality of Cárdenas

Location of Cárdenas

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

Population of Cárdenas

The overall population of the municipality named Cárdenas is 17804 citizens, 8400 males and 9404 females.

Age distribution

The population of Cárdenas is divided into 6826 minors and 10978 adults, with 2672 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Cárdenas

322 people in Cárdenas live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 149 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 134 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 6448 citizens of Cárdenas.

Economic situation

In Cárdenas about 4485 households are registered.

4353 of these households are common houses or apartments, 816 are without floor and about 139 consist of one room only.

4242 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 3709 are connected to the public water supply, 4135 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 356 households to own a computer, 2909 own a washing machine and 3943 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Cárdenas

Besides the 1249 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 173 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

1457 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 5573 persons did not finish the school. 2471 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 2428 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 977 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.