Plátanos

Plátanos is located at a height of 1137 meters above sea level in the municipality of El Bosque in Chiapas, Mexico. Its geographic location is at latitude: 17.004722 and longitude: -92.743333.

Map of Plátanos

Population

Plátanos is populated by 1992 people. The total population consists of 141 children aged 0 to 2 years, 173 aged 3 to 5 years, 353 children aged 6 to 11 years, 183 teenagers between 12 and 14 years and 164 aged 15 to 17 years. The number of adult people aged 18 to 24 is 321, in the age group of 25 to 60 years are 563 people and the over 60 years old people are represented by 94 people.

Dividing the overall population of 1992 inhabitants in only three age groups result in: 850 people aged 0 to 14, 1079 people aged 15 to 64 and 61 people aged 65 or more years. The male-female ratio is 98.21 men per 100 woman and the birth rate (fertility rate) is 2.85 children per woman.

Indigenous population

In Plátanos are known 1992 people in censal housholds, where the head or his partner speaks an indigenous language. In the group of children 3 years and older 1835 speak an indegenous language, 718 speaking an indigenous language but not spanish and 1111 people who do speak both, spanish and an indigenous language. For the age group 5 years and older these numbers are 1724, 609 and 1109 people.

Migration

While 1988 people were born in the same state, 0 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 1734, the number of those older than 5 years who lived in 2005 in another state is 0 people.

Disabilities

32 of the 1992 living in Plátanos have some form of disability, activity limitation, mental or physical condition.

Mobility impairment: 13
Visual impairment: 10
Communicating: 3
Hearing disability: 2
Physical disability: 2
Learning and thinking: 0
Mental health: 5

A total of 1955 people is free of disabilities. Read about disabilities.

School and education

Analphabetism

In the age group of 8 to 14 years about 70 people do not know read or write and 278 of the group 15 and older are in that same situation.

School

Aged 3 to 5 years: 129 do not visit school
Aged 6 to 11 years: 29 do not visit a school
Aged 12 to 14 years: 11 do not visit a school
Aged 15 to 17 years: 107 do visit a school
Aged 18 to 24 years: 31 do visit a school

15 years and older

250 do not have any school degree or at most preschool.
260 did visit primary school up to the fifth class (incomplete).
241 finished primary school (6 years complete).
98 two years at secondary school at least (incomplete).
225 three years at secondary school (complete).

Adults

Within the group of adults over 18 years 47 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 32 males and 15 females. While the populations medium degree is 5.12, the male population do have a medium degree of 6.11, the female population one of 4.23

Economic characteristics

Economically active

The economically active population, people how are employed or actively seeking employment, is 438 people. 434 of this fraction are male and 4 are female. Economically inactive are about 878 people. The active fraction divides in 438 occupied and 0 unoccupied people.

Social security and public health care

While 1051 people have access to one of the social security systems in Mexico, about 936 individuals are without health insurance.

Access to the services of the Mexican Social Security Institute IMSS have 1 people. 0 people do have the right to access the ISSTE, 0 find their security at ISSSTE and 1031 have access to the public health insurance, Seguro Popular.

Marital Status

About 584 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 672 and there are 64 people who are separated, divorced or widowed.

Religions

The large fraction of 1615 people are Roman Catholics, 263 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 113 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 332 and 316 of them are inhabited.

Private homes

The total number of private homes, with more detailed information available, is 332. With 316 occupied private homes and 15 unoccupied private homes. 1 are only for temporal use. As far as information is available the medium number of occupants in private homes is 1992.

Economic status

In Plátanos about 158 private homes do not have any of the following goods. 89 own a radio, 106 have a TV, 30 own a fridge, a washing machine is available in 4 private homes and a car is available in 4. In 0 homes a PC is part of the standard of living. A cable telephone is available in 0, an internet connection can be found in 1 and 6 homes do have cellphones.