Puerto Peñasco

Information and facts about the municipality of Puerto Peñasco

Location of Puerto Peñasco

The municipality of Puerto Peñasco is located in the Mexican state of Sonora México

Population of Puerto Peñasco

The overall population of the municipality named Puerto Peñasco is 44875 citizens, 23319 males and 21556 females.

Age distribution

The population of Puerto Peñasco is divided into 17315 minors and 27560 adults, with 2453 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Puerto Peñasco

1268 people in Puerto Peñasco live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 679 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 1 and 644 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 29105 citizens of Puerto Peñasco.

Economic situation

In Puerto Peñasco about 11306 households are registered.

11278 of these households are common houses or apartments, 511 are without floor and about 1166 consist of one room only.

10493 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 10321 are connected to the public water supply, 10323 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 2311 households to own a computer, 7894 own a washing machine and 10114 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Puerto Peñasco

Besides the 843 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 274 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

1217 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 11562 persons did not finish the school. 6933 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 10022 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2636 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 9 years.