Mazatlán

Information and facts about the municipality of Mazatlán

Location of Mazatlán

The municipality of Mazatlán is located in the Mexican state of Sinaloa México

Population of Mazatlán

The overall population of the municipality named Mazatlán is 403888 citizens, 198469 males and 205419 females.

Age distribution

The population of Mazatlán is divided into 150702 minors and 253186 adults, with 33053 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Mazatlán

3917 people in Mazatlán live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 1893 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 1 and 1800 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 264412 citizens of Mazatlán.

Economic situation

In Mazatlán about 105147 households are registered.

107143 of these households are common houses or apartments, 3259 are without floor and about 5985 consist of one room only.

98881 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 99710 are connected to the public water supply, 101876 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 24425 households to own a computer, 79768 own a washing machine and 100945 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Mazatlán

Besides the 9431 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 2360 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

10720 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 94245 persons did not finish the school. 48814 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 120077 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 35181 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 9 years.