Of the Solans whose literacy was recorded, 74.8% could both read and write, 5% could read but not write, and 20.1% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 77% reading and writing against 72.9% of men. Bear in mind these figures include young children; the census itself only counted people aged nine and over when calculating illiteracy, on the grounds that it was unfair to label a child illiterate before they'd had a chance to learn.