Tunkás

Information and facts about the municipality of Tunkás

Location of Tunkás

The municipality of Tunkás is located in the Mexican state of Yucatán México

Population of Tunkás

The overall population of the municipality named Tunkás is 3421 citizens, 1698 males and 1723 females.

Age distribution

The population of Tunkás is divided into 1270 minors and 2151 adults, with 501 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Tunkás

3021 people in Tunkás live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 1754 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 26 and 1722 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 2659 citizens of Tunkás.

Economic situation

In Tunkás about 912 households are registered.

891 of these households are common houses or apartments, 88 are without floor and about 169 consist of one room only.

818 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 830 are connected to the public water supply, 811 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 11 households to own a computer, 316 own a washing machine and 672 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Tunkás

Besides the 487 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 29 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

425 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 1337 persons did not finish the school. 260 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 341 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 204 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 5 years.