Tapalapa

Information and facts about the municipality of Tapalapa

Location of Tapalapa

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

Population of Tapalapa

The overall population of the municipality named Tapalapa is 3928 citizens, 1867 males and 2061 females.

Age distribution

The population of Tapalapa is divided into 1901 minors and 2027 adults, with 330 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Tapalapa

3909 people in Tapalapa live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 3287 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 111 and 3162 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 114 citizens of Tapalapa.

Economic situation

In Tapalapa about 932 households are registered.

876 of these households are common houses or apartments, 309 are without floor and about 109 consist of one room only.

830 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 755 are connected to the public water supply, 834 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 25 households to own a computer, 18 own a washing machine and 379 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tapalapa

Besides the 507 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 61 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

469 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 1397 persons did not finish the school. 201 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 234 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 225 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 4 years.