Tampico - Tamaulipas

Facts about Tampico

Location of Tampico

Tampico is located in the municipality of Tampico in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -97.868611
Latitude (dec): 22.255278

Height over sea level of Tampico

The locations medium height over sea level is 10 meters.

Population in Tampico

The over all population of Tampico is 303635 persons, 145313 of them are male and 158322 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 94447 minors and 209188 adults, with 30144 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Tampico

5776 inhabitants of the location Tampico in Mexico live in indigenous households. 2947 of the citizens 5 years and older, speak an indigenous language. The count of people who only speak an indigenous language without having knowledge of the Spanish language is 9 people, while 2844 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 201661 citizens of Tampico.

Economic situation

In Tampico exist about 83234 households.

Of these households 83519 are common houses or apartments, 1102 are without floor and about 6989 consist of one room only.

80160 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 79979 are connected to the public water supply, 80364 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 22003 households to own a computer, 64782 own a washing machine and 79564 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tampico

Besides the 5465 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 1146 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

6172 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 61513 persons did not finish the school. 43383 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 109286 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 27220 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 10 years.