Durango

Information and facts about the municipality of Durango

Location of Durango

The municipality of Durango is located in the Mexican state of Durango México

Population of Durango

The overall population of the municipality named Durango is 526659 citizens, 253236 males and 273423 females.

Age distribution

The population of Durango is divided into 212577 minors and 314082 adults, with 39829 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Durango

5072 people in Durango live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 2599 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 7 and 2451 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 293842 citizens of Durango.

Economic situation

In Durango about 126032 households are registered.

127060 of these households are common houses or apartments, 6927 are without floor and about 3441 consist of one room only.

118302 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 119284 are connected to the public water supply, 121467 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 31291 households to own a computer, 88624 own a washing machine and 119638 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Durango

Besides the 9384 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 3270 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

10524 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 123168 persons did not finish the school. 79704 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 129980 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 43776 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 9 years.