Sonora

Information and facts about the mexican state of Sonora

Population of Sonora

The overall population of the state of Sonora is 2394861 citizens, 1198154 males and 1196707 females.

Age distribution

The population of Sonora is divided into 914743 minors and 1480118 adults, with 191223 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Sonora

107085 people in Sonora live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 51701 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 885 and 48600 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 1595337 citizens of Sonora.

Economic situation

In Sonora about 606332 households are registered.

614957 of these households are common houses or apartments, 53291 are without floor and about 37667 consist of one room only.

572620 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 558607 are connected to the public water supply, 580076 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 135318 households to own a computer, 414286 own a washing machine and 565148 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Sonora

Besides the 60257 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 14387 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

67680 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 550836 persons did not finish the school. 378704 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 590187 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 186724 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 9 years.