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Mexico

270 locals speak for 87.1 million adults across Mexico.

Locals270People in situations, written from public sources, each at a real Mexican place. 30 more share a situation with another local and speak for nobody yet.
Adults they speak for87.1MEvery adult 18 and over in the census sample for the 32 states, weighted: 87,094,363.
Have a close local98.0%A local whose situation fits theirs closely.
A typical local229,000adults spoken for (the median). Dulce speaks for the most: 1,156,000.

Where Mexico's locals live

about 14,000 to 1,156,000 adults
Mexico CityValley of MexicoAlfredoCuliacán, SinaloaSoniaGuadalajara, JaliscoAlejandroMonterrey, Nuevo LeónZazilMérida, YucatánMauricioBenito Juárez, Mexico CityDulceVeracruz, Veracruz
Centre 96 locals · 32.0% of adultsWest and the Bajío 59 locals · 19.6% of adultsSouth 54 locals · 18.1% of adultsNortheast 41 locals · 13.5% of adultsNorthwest 38 locals · 12.8% of adultsSoutheast 12 locals · 4.1% of adults

Each dot is one local, at the town or colonia in their story, sized by how many adults they speak for. The faces are the local who speaks for the most adults in each of six parts of the country. The Valley of Mexico, home to 53 of the locals, is drawn again at 8 times the scale in the corner; the US and Central America are drawn for context.

Where adults live

Share of adults · number of locals
BCN3.1%9
SON2.4%7
CHH2.9%9
COA2.5%7
NLE4.7%14
BCS0.6%2
SIN2.4%7
DUR1.4%4
ZAC1.2%4
SLP2.2%7
TAM2.8%9
NAY1.0%3
AGU1.1%3
GUA4.8%14
QUE1.9%6
HID2.4%7
YUC1.9%6
JAL6.6%20
MIC3.7%11
MEX13.7%41
CMX8.2%25
TLA1.0%3
VER6.5%19
CAM0.7%2
ROO1.5%4
COL0.6%2
GRO2.6%8
MOR1.6%5
PUE5.1%15
OAX3.2%9
TAB1.9%6
CHP3.9%12

Each local counts only for the people like them in the census, so every share stays true to where adults really live. Every state has at least one local.

Life stage

Share of adultsLocals in that stage
Student
5.8%13 locals
Starting out
12.4%39 locals
Young family
19.1%60 locals
School-age family
24.0%73 locals
Settled
12.3%36 locals
Empty nest
16.6%50 locals
Retired
9.8%29 locals

Life stage, not age, is how a local is matched to the census.

How money feels

30%45%25%
Comfortable 29.8%Getting by 45.3%Squeezed 24.9%

From monthly household income, adjusted for household size and cut into national tenths. Squeezed: the bottom three tenths. Comfortable: the top three. A household that reported no income (about one in eight) counts as getting by. The tenths are national, so they don't know that a peso goes further in Oaxaca than in Mexico City.

City, town or country

51%16%34%
City 50.7%Smaller city or town 15.6%Small town or rural 33.7%

By the size of the locality. City: 100,000 people or more. Smaller city or town: 15,000 to 99,999. Small town or rural: under 15,000. The census draws no line around a city's suburbs, so a big suburb such as Ecatepec counts as a city.

14.6%rent their home
0.2%new to Mexico (arrived 2015 to 2020)

Language at home

93%7%
Spanish 93.3%Also an Indigenous language 6.7%

Every local lives their day in Mexican Spanish; for a local who also speaks an Indigenous language, it is part of their story. Their profiles here are in English.

40locals also speak an Indigenous language

Who speaks for the most people

Adults spoken for
  • Dulce Formando Hogar, Veracruz, Veracruz

    Is home with her toddler in her mother-in-law's house in Formando Hogar while her husband works 12-hour rotating shifts as a crane operator at the Port of Veracruz, and a dengue case two doors down has her spending on repellent and window screens.

    1.2M
  • Mauricio Colonia Del Valle, Benito Juárez, Mexico City

    His family's 2012 SUV just failed the verificación and now can't circulate one weekday plus some Saturdays, so he is pricing a hybrid on a 36-month loan against rebuilding the school-run carpool with two other Del Valle families.

    1.0M
  • Sonia Chapalita, Guadalajara, Jalisco

    Is learning to manage her nine-year-old son's new type 1 diabetes diagnosis while renewing the family's major medical insurance and comparing glucose sensors, from the house in Chapalita her husband's parents left them.

    990k
  • Bruno Colonia Ricardo Flores Magón, Veracruz, Veracruz

    Waits tables at a seafood restaurant on the Boca del Río boardwalk, living on tips that swell at Carnaval and Semana Santa and nearly vanish when the winter nortes empty the beach, while he sleeps in the room his parents added on the roof of their house.

    931k
  • Alejandro Cumbres, Monterrey, Nuevo León

    Pays private bilingual school tuition for three kids in San Pedro, and the January re-enrolment fee plus this year's tuition hike lands in the same weeks as the early-payment predial discount on the family's house in Cumbres.

    852k

How well the locals cover Mexico

98%
Close match 98.0%Loose match 2.0%No local yet 0.0%

Every adult in the census sample is matched to the nearest local.