The 50 least deprived stations of the Mexico City metro

Mexico City metro stations ranked by CONAPO's urban marginación index for the AGEBs around them. It is not an income figure.

Where the money is on the Mexico City network

Every station the survey could price, coloured by the income around it, over the city's own streets.

Acatitla - 120.60Aculco - 121.65Agrícola Oriental - 123.31Allende - 119.50Apatlaco - 121.50Aquiles Serdán - 122.60Aragón - 122.45Atlalilco - 121.33Auditorio - 125.26Autobuses del Norte - 122.20Balbuena - 123.35Balderas - 122.27Barranca del Muerto - 125.45Bellas Artes - 122.87Bondojito - 122.27Bosque de Aragón - 123.43Boulevard Puerto Aéreo - 123.20Buenavista - 123.17Calle 11 - 123.73Camarones - 123.31Canal de San Juan - 122.16Canal del Norte - 122.13Candelaria - 119.98Centro Médico - 122.93Cerro de la Estrella - 121.73Chabacano - 122.60Chapultepec - 123.87Chilpancingo - 124.05Ciudad Azteca - 121.52Ciudad Deportiva - 122.23Colegio Militar - 124.80Constitución de 1917 - 122.02Constituyentes - 123.04Consulado - 122.32Copilco - 124.55Coyoacán - 124.94Coyuya - 122.58Cuatro Caminos - 124.95Cuauhtémoc - 123.45Cuitláhuac - 123.27Culhuacán - 121.53Deportivo 18 de marzo - 123.93Deportivo Oceanía - 122.25División del Norte - 124.81Doctores - 122.75Ecatepec - 121.73Eduardo Molina - 121.91Eje Central - 124.71El Rosario - 122.53Ermita - 124.38Escuadrón 201 - 123.39Etiopía-Plaza de la Transparencia - 124.63Eugenia - 124.95Ferrería/Arena Ciudad de México - 122.21Fray Servando - 120.24Garibaldi/Lagunilla - 121.83General Anaya - 123.45Gómez Farías - 122.47Guelatao - 121.79Guerrero - 122.32Hangares - 123.06Hidalgo - 122.71Hospital 20 de Noviembre - 124.25Hospital General - 123.63Impulsora - 121.86Indios Verdes - 122.23Instituto del Petróleo - 123.59Insurgentes - 123.19Insurgentes Sur - 124.02Isabel la Católica - 120.76Iztacalco - 121.98Iztapalapa - 121.01Jamaica - 122.83Juanacatlán - 123.43Juárez - 123.30La Paz - 121.84La Raza - 121.97La Viga - 123.30La Villa-Basílica - 123.20Lagunilla - 118.89Lázaro Cárdenas - 121.81Lindavista - 124.29Lomas Estrella - 122.71Los Reyes - 120.08Martín Carrera - 121.80Merced - 118.32Mexicaltzingo - 123.48Miguel Ángel de Quevedo - 124.64Misterios - 122.34Mixcoac - 124.14Mixiuhca - 122.31Moctezuma - 123.23Morelos - 120.92Múzquiz - 121.60Nativitas - 123.74Nezahualcóyotl - 121.82Niños Héroes-Poder Judicial CDMX - 123.18Nopalera - 121.89Normal - 123.69Norte 45 - 118.01Obrera - 122.12Observatorio - 121.70Oceanía - 121.97Olímpica - 121.84Olivos - 122.70Panteones - 122.14Pantitlán - 122.09Parque de los Venados - 124.47Patriotismo - 124.43Peñón Viejo - 120.75Periférico Oriente - 122.46Pino Suárez - 121.03Plaza Aragón - 121.24Polanco - 125.58Politécnico - 124.65Popotla - 124.75Portales - 124.28Potrero - 123.03Puebla - 121.87Refinería - 122.88Revolución - 123.69Ricardo Flores Magón - 122.48Río de los Remedios - 122.55Romero Rubio - 122.16Salto del Agua - 122.23San Andrés Tomatlán - 121.94San Antonio - 124.96San Antonio Abad - 122.25San Cosme - 124.06San Joaquín - 122.43San Juan de Letrán - 122.26San Lázaro - 121.83San Pedro de los Pinos - 124.81Santa Anita - 122.71Santa Marta - 121.14Sevilla - 123.58Tacuba - 122.81Tacubaya - 123.58Talismán - 122.47Tasqueña - 124.23Tepalcates - 122.07Tepito - 120.37Terminal Aérea - 121.64Tezonco - 120.69Tezozómoc - 123.33Tláhuac - 121.86Tlaltenco - 121.65Tlatelolco - 124.05UAM-Azcapotzalco - 122.17UAM-I - 122.21Universidad - 121.48Valle Gómez - 122.45Vallejo - 122.80Velódromo - 123.78Viaducto - 123.93Villa de Aragón - 123.61Villa de Cortés - 124.02Viveros-Derechos Humanos - 124.20Xola - 124.38Zapata - 125.14Zapotitlán - 121.68Zaragoza - 122.21Zócalo/Tenochtitlán - 120.27PolancoBarranca del MuertoAuditorio
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Distribution across the 163 stations the survey could price.

Colour runs on rank, not on the raw figure, so the ramp is spent evenly across the network. The wash under the lines spreads that colour between neighbouring stations, so the pattern reads at a glance. Dot size is annual ridership. Hover a station for its numbers. Zoom in for the dense middle of the network: pinch, use the +/- buttons, or double-click, then drag to pan.

First things first: the figure is not money. Mexico publishes no income at neighbourhood scale, so this ranking uses CONAPO's Índice de marginación urbana 2020 by AGEB (IM_2020), exactly as published. It is a DP2 composite built from the 2020 census over eleven deprivation indicators: schooling, access to health services, piped water, drainage, electricity, earth floors, a refrigerator, internet, a mobile phone and overcrowding. A high value means LOW marginación, that is, more comfort. CONAPO measures DP2 distance from the worst theoretical scenario after flipping the sign of each indicator, so a plain descending sort already puts the most affluent areas first and no inversion is applied here (worth saying, because readers who know the index often expect the opposite). Each station takes the population-weighted mean of IM_2020 across rated AGEBs whose centroid lies within 600 m, and the containing AGEB is reported as the area. That covers 163 stations, all 163 rated, including eleven that anchor on AGEBs in the Estado de México (Cuatro Caminos, Río de los Remedios, Impulsora, Olímpica, La Paz and Ciudad Azteca among them). Line 7 owns the top: Polanco leads at 125.58, ahead of Barranca del Muerto (125.45), Auditorio (125.26), San Antonio (124.96) and San Pedro de los Pinos (124.81). The Benito Juárez and Coyoacán axis fills in the rest of the podium with Zapata (125.14), Eugenia (124.95), Coyoacán (124.94) and División del Norte (124.81), and Cuatro Caminos (124.95), out in Naucalpan de Juárez, is the only station in the state to reach that high. Three honest caveats. Across the whole network the index spans only 118.01 to 125.58, a narrow band inside a national scale running roughly 60 to 132, so rank differences of a few hundredths are not meaningful. The index saturates in a city where water and electricity are near-universal, which compresses the differences among the wealthier western areas. And it is not comparable to the euro, dollar or real figures in the sister articles: it measures deprivation, not money.

Sources: CONAPO, Índice de marginación urbana 2020 by AGEB (variable IM_2020, Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020), INEGI Marco Geoestadístico 2020 urban-AGEB cartography for Ciudad de México (09) and México (15), Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro (station positions).

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