Sacalum

Information and facts about the municipality of Sacalum

Location of Sacalum

The municipality of Sacalum is located in the Mexican state of Yucatán México

Population of Sacalum

The overall population of the municipality named Sacalum is 4272 citizens, 2238 males and 2034 females.

Age distribution

The population of Sacalum is divided into 1646 minors and 2626 adults, with 380 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Sacalum

4075 people in Sacalum live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 2445 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 26 and 2406 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 909 citizens of Sacalum.

Economic situation

In Sacalum about 1019 households are registered.

1000 of these households are common houses or apartments, 21 are without floor and about 195 consist of one room only.

948 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 920 are connected to the public water supply, 961 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 13 households to own a computer, 552 own a washing machine and 893 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Sacalum

Besides the 406 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 46 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

333 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 1726 persons did not finish the school. 443 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 399 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 263 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.