Tancanhuitz

Information and facts about the municipality of Tancanhuitz

Location of Tancanhuitz

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

Population of Tancanhuitz

The overall population of the municipality named Tancanhuitz is 20495 citizens, 10180 males and 10315 females.

Age distribution

The population of Tancanhuitz is divided into 9068 minors and 11427 adults, with 2097 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Tancanhuitz

16477 people in Tancanhuitz live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 12556 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 567 and 11944 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 3804 citizens of Tancanhuitz.

Economic situation

In Tancanhuitz about 4277 households are registered.

4263 of these households are common houses or apartments, 2614 are without floor and about 606 consist of one room only.

3959 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 1620 are connected to the public water supply, 3488 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 151 households to own a computer, 555 own a washing machine and 2319 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tancanhuitz

Besides the 2190 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 149 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

1871 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 5852 persons did not finish the school. 2424 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 2657 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 1570 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.