The rate of the population's of Jalisco growth is of 0.16%, and the number of economically active inhabitants is 1’756, 501.

The INEGI indicates that in Guadalajara there is a total of 1,646, 319 inhabitants, of which 47.9% is men and 52.1% are women.

The city has a wide net of terrestrial telecommunications that allows it to have access to the main cities of the country, the International Airport is the fourth most important in the country with flights to North America, South America, Europe, Asia and several points of Mexico, of course.

The city also has all the communication services like mail, telegraph, fax, telephones, broadcast stations, channels of open television, cable television suppliers, Internet access suppliers, parabolic antennas and radio communication.

The current public transportation seems to be insufficient for a Metropolitan Area of more than 4 million inhabitants; the subway system transports thousands of people through its two lines, while the suburban buses are in charge of the Collective System of the Metropolitan Area.

The second university of Mexico was founded in Guadalajara, as well as the first private university. The Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara has a great number of centers of studies of great prestige. The schools and universities as much private as officials offer complete study plans that enable the studying youths to face the competitive market to which they will be integrated as professionals.    

In terms of religion, in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara is professed the Catholicism for the most part, with 94.67% of the inhabitants baptized in this religion. 2.77% belongs to evangelical doctrines and Protestants, while 0.98% to Adventists, Mormons and witnesses of Jehová; there are a 0.03% of Jews, 0.89% of non practitioners and 0.63% of believers or without preferences.