Tanques - Sinaloa

Facts about Tanques

Location of Tanques

Tanques is located in the municipality of Elota in the Mexican state of Sinaloa with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -107.013333
Latitude (dec): 24.062500

Height over sea level of Tanques

The locations medium height over sea level is 49 meters.

Population in Tanques

The over all population of Tanques is 1524 persons, 767 of them are male and 757 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 670 minors and 854 adults, with 157 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Tanques

0 inhabitants of the location Tanques in Mexico live in indigenous households. 1 of the citizens 5 years and older, speak an indigenous language. The count of people who only speak an indigenous language without having knowledge of the Spanish language is 0 people, while 0 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 687 citizens of Tanques.

Economic situation

In Tanques exist about 350 households.

Of these households 344 are common houses or apartments, 13 are without floor and about 10 consist of one room only.

308 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 319 are connected to the public water supply, 336 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 10 households to own a computer, 230 own a washing machine and 309 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tanques

Besides the 120 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 11 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

163 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 396 persons did not finish the school. 200 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 114 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 86 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.