San Juan Cancuc

Information and facts about the municipality of San Juan Cancuc

Location of San Juan Cancuc

The municipality of San Juan Cancuc is located in the Mexican state of Chiapas México

Population of San Juan Cancuc

The overall population of the municipality named San Juan Cancuc is 24906 citizens, 12306 males and 12600 females.

Age distribution

The population of San Juan Cancuc is divided into 14575 minors and 10331 adults, with 991 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of San Juan Cancuc

23413 people in San Juan Cancuc live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 19067 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 8874 and 10147 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 22 citizens of San Juan Cancuc.

Economic situation

In San Juan Cancuc about 4240 households are registered.

4509 of these households are common houses or apartments, 3490 are without floor and about 470 consist of one room only.

3831 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 2190 are connected to the public water supply, 3729 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 2 households to own a computer, 0 own a washing machine and 372 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in San Juan Cancuc

Besides the 5476 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 959 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

4664 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 5767 persons did not finish the school. 827 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 600 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 814 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 4 years.