[1] In 2020, the total population of San Miguel Totolapan was 24,139 inhabitants, with 50.8% women, and 49.2% men.

Due to low population number, as well as other issues, San Miguel Totolapan’s urban sprawl has been fairly poor with the city registering a 5.8 on the SNDi index,[3] meaning the streets are not well connected and this affects the livability and environmental footprint for decades and centuries to come as well as affecting health, the environment, overconsumption, social segregation, and equity.

[4] The Cuitlatec language, now extinct, used to be spoken in San Miguel Totolapan.

Juana Can, the last speaker of Cuitlatec, is believed to have died in San Miguel Totolapan in the 1960s.

[5] On 5 October 2022 members of the Los Tequileros criminal gang opened fire on the town hall, killing eighteen people, including the mayor Conrado Mendoza Almeda and his father.