# Localities of Mexico

Localities (Spanish: Localidades) are the basic level of administrative divisions of Mexico that correspond to distinct settlements. In the Mexican administrative hierarchy, localities are under the municipalities and boroughs. As of December 2024, there are in total 296,814 localities under the 2,478 municipalities in Mexico.

## Administration

The Constitution of Mexico has defined Mexico a federal republic of 32 federative entities (31 states and Mexico City), it also outlines that the federative entities to be divided into municipalities (Spanish: municipios) and boroughs (Spanish: demarcaciones territoriales). The divisions of municipalities and boroughs are regulated solely by constitutions and laws of the respective federative entities.
Among the states, settlement classification schemes vary. Common types of localities include:
* City (Spanish: Ciudad) — for more populous places,
* Town (Spanish: Villa) — for middle populous places, and
* Village (Spanish: Pueblo or Poblado) — for less populous places.
Other classifications include ranchería, congregación (población), or ejido.
Mexico City further divides its boroughs into neighborhoods (Spanish: colonias).
The federal government has established the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, INEGI) to maintain the statistics and encoding of the administrative divisions across the country. The INEGI uses the term localities (Spanish: localidades) to collectively refer to these types of division. The INEGI's definition of localities is: "All places with one or more dwellings, who may be inhabited or not, and can be classed as urban or rural."

## Statistics

According to INEGI's data, there are in total 296,814 localities under the 2,478 municipalities in Mexico as of December 2024.
| Federative entity | Federative entity | Municipalities and boroughs | Localities | Localities | Localities |
| Code | Name | Municipalities and boroughs | Urban | Rural | Total |
| 01 | Aguascalientes | 11 | 40 | 2,962 | 3,002 |
| 02 | Baja California | 7 | 44 | 7,703 | 7,747 |
| 03 | Baja California Sur | 5 | 16 | 4,148 | 4,164 |
| 04 | Campeche | 13 | 33 | 4,981 | 5,014 |
| 05 | Coahuila | 38 | 59 | 10,308 | 1,0367 |
| 06 | Colima | 10 | 21 | 2,885 | 2,906 |
| 07 | Chiapas | 124 | 206 | 27,372 | 27,578 |
| 08 | Chihuahua | 67 | 89 | 23,327 | 23,416 |
| 09 | Mexico City | 16 | 33 | 687 | 720 |
| 10 | Durango | 39 | 61 | 9,961 | 10,022 |
| 11 | Guanajuato | 46 | 175 | 10,947 | 11,122 |
| 12 | Guerrero | 85 | 151 | 9,195 | 9,346 |
| 13 | Hidalgo | 84 | 263 | 5,028 | 5,291 |
| 14 | Jalisco | 125 | 285 | 18,911 | 19,196 |
| 15 | México | 125 | 571 | 4,584 | 5,155 |
| 16 | Michoacán | 113 | 229 | 10,895 | 11,124 |
| 17 | Morelos | 36 | 95 | 1,763 | 1,858 |
| 18 | Nayarit | 20 | 55 | 4,743 | 4,798 |
| 19 | Nuevo León | 51 | 104 | 10,702 | 10,806 |
| 20 | Oaxaca | 570 | 612 | 12,520 | 13,132 |
| 21 | Puebla | 217 | 433 | 7,389 | 7,822 |
| 22 | Querétaro | 18 | 113 | 2,703 | 2,816 |
| 23 | Quintana Roo | 11 | 28 | 4,247 | 4,275 |
| 24 | San Luis Potosí | 59 | 83 | 8,823 | 8,906 |
| 25 | Sinaloa | 20 | 88 | 8,740 | 8,828 |
| 26 | Sonora | 72 | 104 | 16,250 | 16,354 |
| 27 | Tabasco | 17 | 104 | 2,598 | 2,702 |
| 28 | Tamaulipas | 43 | 63 | 13,920 | 13,983 |
| 29 | Tlaxcala | 60 | 137 | 1,610 | 1,747 |
| 30 | Veracruz | 212 | 390 | 26,193 | 26,583 |
| 31 | Yucatán | 106 | 133 | 9,757 | 9,890 |
| 32 | Zacatecas | 58 | 86 | 6,058 | 6,144 |
| Total | Total | 2,478 | 4,904 | 291,910 | 296,814 |

## City

Cities (Spanish: Ciudades) are usually the most populous localities within the state. Each city elects its own city mayor (Spanish: alcalde de la ciudad). Note that the term city mayor should not be confused with municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal), leader of a municipality, the city's upper-level division.
Some larger cities are consolidated with its own municipality and form a single level of governance. Some of these cities are further divided into boroughs (Spanish: delegaciones) or neighborhoods (Spanish: colonias) in locality level.