Tapilula

Tapilula is located at a height of 780 meters above sea level in the municipality of Tapilula in Chiapas, Mexico. Its geographic location is at latitude: 17.248611 and longitude: -93.016667.

Map of Tapilula

Population

Tapilula is populated by 7441 people. The total population consists of 517 children aged 0 to 2 years, 501 aged 3 to 5 years, 932 children aged 6 to 11 years, 499 teenagers between 12 and 14 years and 548 aged 15 to 17 years. The number of adult people aged 18 to 24 is 1040, in the age group of 25 to 60 years are 2852 people and the over 60 years old people are represented by 552 people.

Dividing the overall population of 7441 inhabitants in only three age groups result in: 2449 people aged 0 to 14, 4606 people aged 15 to 64 and 385 people aged 65 or more years. The male-female ratio is 93.12 men per 100 woman and the birth rate (fertility rate) is 2.47 children per woman.

Indigenous population

In Tapilula are known 724 people in censal housholds, where the head or his partner speaks an indigenous language. In the group of children 3 years and older 267 speak an indegenous language, 2 speaking an indigenous language but not spanish and 220 people who do speak both, spanish and an indigenous language. For the age group 5 years and older these numbers are 264, 2 and 219 people.

Migration

While 7307 people were born in the same state, 109 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 6505, the number of those older than 5 years who lived in 2005 in another state is 47 people.

Disabilities

269 of the 7441 living in Tapilula have some form of disability, activity limitation, mental or physical condition.

Mobility impairment: 118
Visual impairment: 84
Communicating: 20
Hearing disability: 26
Physical disability: 2
Learning and thinking: 11
Mental health: 23

A total of 7102 people is free of disabilities. Read about disabilities.

School and education

Analphabetism

In the age group of 8 to 14 years about 49 people do not know read or write and 742 of the group 15 and older are in that same situation.

School

Aged 3 to 5 years: 145 do not visit school
Aged 6 to 11 years: 26 do not visit a school
Aged 12 to 14 years: 35 do not visit a school
Aged 15 to 17 years: 410 do visit a school
Aged 18 to 24 years: 291 do visit a school

15 years and older

812 do not have any school degree or at most preschool.
733 did visit primary school up to the fifth class (incomplete).
574 finished primary school (6 years complete).
280 two years at secondary school at least (incomplete).
820 three years at secondary school (complete).

Adults

Within the group of adults over 18 years 1561 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 802 males and 759 females. While the populations medium degree is 7.58, the male population do have a medium degree of 8.02, the female population one of 7.19

Economic characteristics

Economically active

The economically active population, people how are employed or actively seeking employment, is 2672 people. 1892 of this fraction are male and 780 are female. Economically inactive are about 2786 people. The active fraction divides in 2594 occupied and 78 unoccupied people.

Social security and public health care

While 5116 people have access to one of the social security systems in Mexico, about 2297 individuals are without health insurance.

Access to the services of the Mexican Social Security Institute IMSS have 180 people. 447 people do have the right to access the ISSTE, 22 find their security at ISSSTE and 4395 have access to the public health insurance, Seguro Popular.

Marital Status

About 1885 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 2968 and there are 628 people who are separated, divorced or widowed.

Religions

The large fraction of 5720 people are Roman Catholics, 1102 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 517 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 2181 and 1772 of them are inhabited.

Private homes

The total number of private homes, with more detailed information available, is 2180. With 1771 occupied private homes and 218 unoccupied private homes. 191 are only for temporal use. As far as information is available the medium number of occupants in private homes is 7439.

Economic status

In Tapilula about 138 private homes do not have any of the following goods. 1042 own a radio, 1506 have a TV, 1026 own a fridge, a washing machine is available in 531 private homes and a car is available in 267. In 195 homes a PC is part of the standard of living. A cable telephone is available in 157, an internet connection can be found in 58 and 813 homes do have cellphones.