La Palma, Sinaloa (El Fuerte)

La Palma, Sinaloa (El Fuerte) is located at a height of 29 meters above sea level in the municipality of El Fuerte (Gra-Los) in Sinaloa, Mexico. Its geographic location is at latitude: 26.034444 and longitude: -108.861944.

Map of La Palma, Sinaloa (El Fuerte)

Population

La Palma, Sinaloa (El Fuerte) is populated by 781 people. The total population consists of 55 children aged 0 to 2 years, 53 aged 3 to 5 years, 101 children aged 6 to 11 years, 43 teenagers between 12 and 14 years and 43 aged 15 to 17 years. The number of adult people aged 18 to 24 is 88, in the age group of 25 to 60 years are 330 people and the over 60 years old people are represented by 68 people.

Dividing the overall population of 781 inhabitants in only three age groups result in: 252 people aged 0 to 14, 477 people aged 15 to 64 and 51 people aged 65 or more years. The male-female ratio is 115.75 men per 100 woman and the birth rate (fertility rate) is 2.62 children per woman.

Indigenous population

In La Palma, Sinaloa (El Fuerte) are known 427 people in censal housholds, where the head or his partner speaks an indigenous language. In the group of children 3 years and older 186 speak an indegenous language, 2 speaking an indigenous language but not spanish and 179 people who do speak both, spanish and an indigenous language. For the age group 5 years and older these numbers are 184, 2 and 178 people.

Migration

While 752 people were born in the same state, 28 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 669, the number of those older than 5 years who lived in 2005 in another state is 16 people.

Disabilities

33 of the 781 living in La Palma, Sinaloa (El Fuerte) have some form of disability, activity limitation, mental or physical condition.

Mobility impairment: 18
Visual impairment: 5
Communicating: 5
Hearing disability: 5
Physical disability: 2
Learning and thinking: 2
Mental health: 7

A total of 746 people is free of disabilities. Read about disabilities.

School and education

Analphabetism

In the age group of 8 to 14 years about 2 people do not know read or write and 53 of the group 15 and older are in that same situation.

School

Aged 3 to 5 years: 9 do not visit school
Aged 6 to 11 years: 1 do not visit a school
Aged 12 to 14 years: 1 do not visit a school
Aged 15 to 17 years: 30 do visit a school
Aged 18 to 24 years: 15 do visit a school

15 years and older

37 do not have any school degree or at most preschool.
129 did visit primary school up to the fifth class (incomplete).
115 finished primary school (6 years complete).
39 two years at secondary school at least (incomplete).
98 three years at secondary school (complete).

Adults

Within the group of adults over 18 years 97 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 61 males and 36 females. While the populations medium degree is 6.84, the male population do have a medium degree of 7.02, the female population one of 6.63

Economic characteristics

Economically active

The economically active population, people how are employed or actively seeking employment, is 238 people. 197 of this fraction are male and 41 are female. Economically inactive are about 330 people. The active fraction divides in 222 occupied and 16 unoccupied people.

Social security and public health care

While 653 people have access to one of the social security systems in Mexico, about 127 individuals are without health insurance.

Access to the services of the Mexican Social Security Institute IMSS have 116 people. 19 people do have the right to access the ISSTE, 0 find their security at ISSSTE and 530 have access to the public health insurance, Seguro Popular.

Marital Status

About 191 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 322 and there are 57 people who are separated, divorced or widowed.

Religions

The large fraction of 696 people are Roman Catholics, 55 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 0 individuals and finally about 25 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 195 and 176 of them are inhabited.

Private homes

The total number of private homes, with more detailed information available, is 195. With 176 occupied private homes and 16 unoccupied private homes. 3 are only for temporal use. As far as information is available the medium number of occupants in private homes is 781.

Economic status

In La Palma, Sinaloa (El Fuerte) about 8 private homes do not have any of the following goods. 112 own a radio, 150 have a TV, 131 own a fridge, a washing machine is available in 49 private homes and a car is available in 41. In 1 homes a PC is part of the standard of living. A cable telephone is available in 1, an internet connection can be found in 1 and 66 homes do have cellphones.