Hidalgo

Information and facts about the municipality of Hidalgo

Location of Hidalgo

The municipality of Hidalgo is located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas México

Population of Hidalgo

The overall population of the municipality named Hidalgo is 23357 citizens, 11976 males and 11381 females.

Age distribution

The population of Hidalgo is divided into 8276 minors and 15081 adults, with 3499 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Hidalgo

138 people in Hidalgo live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 67 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 61 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 14018 citizens of Hidalgo.

Economic situation

In Hidalgo about 6326 households are registered.

6219 of these households are common houses or apartments, 911 are without floor and about 848 consist of one room only.

5948 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 5554 are connected to the public water supply, 5801 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 133 households to own a computer, 3236 own a washing machine and 5350 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Hidalgo

Besides the 1276 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 155 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

967 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 9060 persons did not finish the school. 3713 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 2351 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 1193 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.