Population and Housing
As of 2010, the total population of Belize was 312,698. The total number of households in Belize was 79,272 and the average household size was 3.9. The homeless population amounted to 118 in total, of whom 113 were males and 5 were females. The institutional population were discovered to number 1,957; 1,665 being male and 292 being female. The total population in urban Belize was 139,069; 68,020 males and 71,049 females. There were 39,131 total urban households in 2010, with an average household size of 3.5. The total population in rural Belize was 171,827; 88,261 males and 83,566 females. There were 40,141 total rural households in 2010, with an average household size of 4.3.
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