Ocotepec

Information and facts about the municipality of Ocotepec

Location of Ocotepec

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

Population of Ocotepec

The overall population of the municipality named Ocotepec is 10543 citizens, 5240 males and 5303 females.

Age distribution

The population of Ocotepec is divided into 5612 minors and 4931 adults, with 664 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Ocotepec

10389 people in Ocotepec live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 8494 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 1294 and 6555 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 73 citizens of Ocotepec.

Economic situation

In Ocotepec about 2032 households are registered.

1925 of these households are common houses or apartments, 804 are without floor and about 449 consist of one room only.

1400 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 1532 are connected to the public water supply, 1707 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 1 households to own a computer, 6 own a washing machine and 477 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Ocotepec

Besides the 2335 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 229 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

2417 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 2317 persons did not finish the school. 356 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 419 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 560 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 3 years.