Paso de Ovejas

Information and facts about the municipality of Paso de Ovejas

Location of Paso de Ovejas

The municipality of Paso de Ovejas is located in the Mexican state of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave México

Population of Paso de Ovejas

The overall population of the municipality named Paso de Ovejas is 29828 citizens, 14720 males and 15108 females.

Age distribution

The population of Paso de Ovejas is divided into 9970 minors and 19858 adults, with 3493 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Paso de Ovejas

149 people in Paso de Ovejas live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 63 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 62 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 10831 citizens of Paso de Ovejas.

Economic situation

In Paso de Ovejas about 8237 households are registered.

8128 of these households are common houses or apartments, 933 are without floor and about 1069 consist of one room only.

7037 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 7117 are connected to the public water supply, 7788 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 432 households to own a computer, 4461 own a washing machine and 7464 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Paso de Ovejas

Besides the 2503 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 299 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

2190 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 11080 persons did not finish the school. 4161 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 3964 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 1770 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.