Puerto Morelos

Puerto Morelos is located at a height of 4 meters above sea level in the municipality of Benito Juárez (Los-Vil) in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Its geographic location is at latitude: 20.853611 and longitude: -86.898611.

Map of Puerto Morelos

Population

Puerto Morelos is populated by 9188 people. The total population consists of 559 children aged 0 to 2 years, 561 aged 3 to 5 years, 1054 children aged 6 to 11 years, 437 teenagers between 12 and 14 years and 451 aged 15 to 17 years. The number of adult people aged 18 to 24 is 1245, in the age group of 25 to 60 years are 4504 people and the over 60 years old people are represented by 377 people.

Dividing the overall population of 9188 inhabitants in only three age groups result in: 2611 people aged 0 to 14, 6052 people aged 15 to 64 and 222 people aged 65 or more years. The male-female ratio is 103.23 men per 100 woman and the birth rate (fertility rate) is 1.81 children per woman.

Indigenous population

In Puerto Morelos are known 2089 people in censal housholds, where the head or his partner speaks an indigenous language. In the group of children 3 years and older 964 speak an indegenous language, 4 speaking an indigenous language but not spanish and 909 people who do speak both, spanish and an indigenous language. For the age group 5 years and older these numbers are 962, 4 and 909 people.

Migration

While 2769 people were born in the same state, 5820 were born in another Mexican state. The total number of people older than 5 years who lived in this state between 2005 and 2010 is 5994, the number of those older than 5 years who lived in 2005 in another state is 1741 people.

Disabilities

269 of the 9188 living in Puerto Morelos have some form of disability, activity limitation, mental or physical condition.

Mobility impairment: 83
Visual impairment: 147
Communicating: 8
Hearing disability: 13
Physical disability: 5
Learning and thinking: 14
Mental health: 17

A total of 8500 people is free of disabilities. Read about disabilities.

School and education

Analphabetism

In the age group of 8 to 14 years about 30 people do not know read or write and 197 of the group 15 and older are in that same situation.

School

Aged 3 to 5 years: 296 do not visit school
Aged 6 to 11 years: 43 do not visit a school
Aged 12 to 14 years: 34 do not visit a school
Aged 15 to 17 years: 290 do visit a school
Aged 18 to 24 years: 181 do visit a school

15 years and older

332 do not have any school degree or at most preschool.
617 did visit primary school up to the fifth class (incomplete).
848 finished primary school (6 years complete).
328 two years at secondary school at least (incomplete).
1499 three years at secondary school (complete).

Adults

Within the group of adults over 18 years 2362 do have a scholar degree after having completed secondary school or high school. Like Bachelor, technical schools, university, master or doctor degrees. This group divides into 1252 males and 1110 females. While the populations medium degree is 9.15, the male population do have a medium degree of 9.35, the female population one of 8.93

Economic characteristics

Economically active

The economically active population, people how are employed or actively seeking employment, is 4280 people. 2823 of this fraction are male and 1457 are female. Economically inactive are about 2384 people. The active fraction divides in 4197 occupied and 83 unoccupied people.

Social security and public health care

While 5254 people have access to one of the social security systems in Mexico, about 3585 individuals are without health insurance.

Access to the services of the Mexican Social Security Institute IMSS have 3576 people. 360 people do have the right to access the ISSTE, 9 find their security at ISSSTE and 1127 have access to the public health insurance, Seguro Popular.

Marital Status

About 2066 people of the age group 12 years and older are unmarried or singles. The number of people who are married or who are living in a conjugal relationship is 4063 and there are 559 people who are separated, divorced or widowed.

Religions

The large fraction of 5662 people are Roman Catholics, 1531 people are Christians, mostly Protestants and similar historic religions. Other religions like Judaism, Islam, New Age, Ethnic religions and even religious movements are preferred by 23 individuals and finally about 1391 are without any religion or are atheists.

Homes

The total number of homes, private or not, occupied or not, with or without further information, is 4749 and 2737 of them are inhabited.

Private homes

The total number of private homes, with more detailed information available, is 4648. With 2636 occupied private homes and 1378 unoccupied private homes. 634 are only for temporal use. As far as information is available the medium number of occupants in private homes is 8871.

Economic status

In Puerto Morelos about 40 private homes do not have any of the following goods. 1675 own a radio, 2387 have a TV, 2274 own a fridge, a washing machine is available in 1813 private homes and a car is available in 1129. In 900 homes a PC is part of the standard of living. A cable telephone is available in 587, an internet connection can be found in 667 and 2314 homes do have cellphones.