Tizimín (Municipality)

Information and facts about the municipality of Tizimín

Location of Tizimín

The municipality of Tizimín is located in the Mexican state of Yucatán

Population of Tizimín

The overall population of the municipality named Tizimín is 69553 citizens, 34736 males and 34817 females.

Age distribution

The population of Tizimín is divided into 29170 minors and 40383 adults, with 6167 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Tizimín

52038 people in Tizimín live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 28272 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 1462 and 26030 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 36498 citizens of Tizimín.

Economic situation

In Tizimín about 15969 households are registered.

15362 of these households are common houses or apartments, 1872 are without floor and about 2996 consist of one room only.

13954 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 13356 are connected to the public water supply, 14156 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 1050 households to own a computer, 6738 own a washing machine and 11870 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tizimín

Besides the 8257 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 943 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

6918 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 23541 persons did not finish the school. 6204 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 7867 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 4907 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.