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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 7.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2022 Aug 3;77:102865. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102865

Table 1. Municipality-level characteristics by year (2010, 2015, 2020) and urbanization: the National Statistical Directory of Economic Units (DENUE).

Non-urban areasa
Year
2010 2015 2020
n = 2048 n = 2048 n = 2048
Area (km2), [median (p25, p75)] 250 (98, 687)
Population density (residents/ km2), [median (p25,p75)] 39 (15, 88) 40 (15, 91) 41 (15, 94)
Total population, [median (p25,p75)] 9793 (3486, 22881) 10211 (3453, 23929) 10379 (3607, 24118)
Geographic region, [%]
  North 18.8
  Center 20.6
  Mexico City 0.0
  South 60.6
Socioeconomic deprivation, [%]
  Very low 3.5
  Low 12.7
  Medium 42.6
  High and very high 41.1
Urban areas a n = 406 n = 406 n = 406
Area (km2), [median (p25, p75)] 136 (43, 495)
Population density (residents/ km2), [median (p25,p75)] 425 (169, 1161) 459 (192, 1299) 503 (204, 1425)
Total population, [median (p25,p75)] 67472 (21546, 196953) 75909 (23675, 218153) 83265 (25993, 233648)
Geographic region, [%]
  North 16.7
  Center 40.4
  Mexico City 3.9
  South 38.9
Socioeconomic deprivation, [%]
  Very low 46.8
  Low 34.2
  Medium 17.5
  High and very high 1.5

p25 = 25th percentile, p75 = 75th percentile.

a

Urbanization is defined by the population in 2010: urban areas are municipalities that belong to a city with more than 100,000 residents as defined by SALURBAL (Diez Roux et al., 2019; Quistberg et al., 2019), while non-urban areas refer to all other municipalities (see Methods section).