Rayón

Information and facts about the municipality of Rayón

Location of Rayón

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

Population of Rayón

The overall population of the municipality named Rayón is 7965 citizens, 4009 males and 3956 females.

Age distribution

The population of Rayón is divided into 4000 minors and 3965 adults, with 460 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Rayón

3859 people in Rayón live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 2006 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 11 and 1895 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 446 citizens of Rayón.

Economic situation

In Rayón about 1599 households are registered.

1580 of these households are common houses or apartments, 614 are without floor and about 281 consist of one room only.

1441 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 1193 are connected to the public water supply, 1446 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 28 households to own a computer, 56 own a washing machine and 759 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Rayón

Besides the 1332 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 277 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

1278 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 2028 persons did not finish the school. 437 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 717 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 513 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 5 years.