Tanlajás

Information and facts about the municipality of Tanlajás

Location of Tanlajás

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

Population of Tanlajás

The overall population of the municipality named Tanlajás is 19062 citizens, 9678 males and 9384 females.

Age distribution

The population of Tanlajás is divided into 9013 minors and 10049 adults, with 1679 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Tanlajás

17527 people in Tanlajás live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 14281 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 914 and 13307 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 10775 citizens of Tanlajás.

Economic situation

In Tanlajás about 3898 households are registered.

3871 of these households are common houses or apartments, 3122 are without floor and about 619 consist of one room only.

3522 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 2090 are connected to the public water supply, 3163 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 38 households to own a computer, 281 own a washing machine and 1883 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tanlajás

Besides the 1700 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 121 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

1149 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 5956 persons did not finish the school. 2525 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 1597 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 1160 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.