Santa Gertrudis

Information and facts about the municipality of Santa Gertrudis

Location of Santa Gertrudis

The municipality of Santa Gertrudis is located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca México

Population of Santa Gertrudis

The overall population of the municipality named Santa Gertrudis is 2661 citizens, 1238 males and 1423 females.

Age distribution

The population of Santa Gertrudis is divided into 952 minors and 1709 adults, with 438 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Santa Gertrudis

23 people in Santa Gertrudis live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 10 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 8 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 854 citizens of Santa Gertrudis.

Economic situation

In Santa Gertrudis about 707 households are registered.

692 of these households are common houses or apartments, 159 are without floor and about 61 consist of one room only.

581 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 580 are connected to the public water supply, 678 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 25 households to own a computer, 270 own a washing machine and 581 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Santa Gertrudis

Besides the 402 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 23 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

409 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 913 persons did not finish the school. 279 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 266 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 163 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 5 years.