Monterrey

Information and facts about the municipality of Monterrey

Location of Monterrey

The municipality of Monterrey is located in the Mexican state of Nuevo León México

Population of Monterrey

The overall population of the municipality named Monterrey is 1133814 citizens, 559877 males and 573937 females.

Age distribution

The population of Monterrey is divided into 372225 minors and 761589 adults, with 116195 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Monterrey

15343 people in Monterrey live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 10063 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 10 and 9766 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 746943 citizens of Monterrey.

Economic situation

In Monterrey about 276603 households are registered.

271566 of these households are common houses or apartments, 3964 are without floor and about 10495 consist of one room only.

255266 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 256213 are connected to the public water supply, 258856 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 80396 households to own a computer, 230290 own a washing machine and 257662 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Monterrey

Besides the 22398 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 6349 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

26921 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 223195 persons did not finish the school. 193604 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 352721 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 78946 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 10 years.