Balancán

Information and facts about the municipality of Balancán

Location of Balancán

The municipality of Balancán is located in the Mexican state of Tabasco México

Population of Balancán

The overall population of the municipality named Balancán is 53038 citizens, 26190 males and 26848 females.

Age distribution

The population of Balancán is divided into 21727 minors and 31311 adults, with 4373 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Balancán

1084 people in Balancán live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 504 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 7 and 439 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 41826 citizens of Balancán.

Economic situation

In Balancán about 13465 households are registered.

13256 of these households are common houses or apartments, 1225 are without floor and about 2343 consist of one room only.

12112 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 10647 are connected to the public water supply, 12312 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 799 households to own a computer, 6489 own a washing machine and 11011 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Balancán

Besides the 4739 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 567 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

4389 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 16325 persons did not finish the school. 6718 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 7134 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 3982 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.