Motozintla

Information and facts about the municipality of Motozintla

Location of Motozintla

The municipality of Motozintla is located in the Mexican state of Chiapas México

Population of Motozintla

The overall population of the municipality named Motozintla is 58115 citizens, 28681 males and 29434 females.

Age distribution

The population of Motozintla is divided into 27844 minors and 30271 adults, with 3846 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Motozintla

2320 people in Motozintla live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 766 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 1 and 725 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 4163 citizens of Motozintla.

Economic situation

In Motozintla about 10867 households are registered.

10464 of these households are common houses or apartments, 3079 are without floor and about 1037 consist of one room only.

9459 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 5028 are connected to the public water supply, 9923 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 234 households to own a computer, 858 own a washing machine and 6283 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Motozintla

Besides the 4664 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 1455 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

4473 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 20594 persons did not finish the school. 4680 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 4404 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2908 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.