Cananea

Information and facts about the municipality of Cananea

Location of Cananea

The municipality of Cananea is located in the Mexican state of Sonora México

Population of Cananea

The overall population of the municipality named Cananea is 32157 citizens, 16022 males and 16135 females.

Age distribution

The population of Cananea is divided into 12298 minors and 19859 adults, with 2968 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Cananea

214 people in Cananea live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 92 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 90 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 22627 citizens of Cananea.

Economic situation

In Cananea about 8582 households are registered.

8794 of these households are common houses or apartments, 102 are without floor and about 155 consist of one room only.

8317 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 8306 are connected to the public water supply, 8343 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 2494 households to own a computer, 7666 own a washing machine and 8304 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Cananea

Besides the 334 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 153 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

336 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 7233 persons did not finish the school. 5685 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 7859 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2284 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 9 years.