There are at least two restaurants/bars in the village and several curio shops selling mostly bead craft work. "Los Diablos", a firefighting team, lives in Boquillas. They work in the national park where they fight wildfires and sometimes support firefighting efforts in the United States. In 2015 a solar farm was brought into operation, providing electricity throughout the village. Apart from the river crossing to Big Bend, Boquillas can be reached by road along Mexican Federal Highway 53. The nearest settlement of any size is Santa Rosa de Múzquiz which is 150 miles away with a journey time of at least 4 hours on account of the poor road condition. In 2013, it was noted that there was no mobile phone coverage or internet provision in Boquillas. A single telephone line now comes into the village. When one calls that line, the operator states a specific time at which the caller should call back, promising that the operator will find the person being telephoned and ensure that he/she is at the phone in order to receive the call at the appointed time. Since 1990, the population has never been officially recorded as over 200. It suffered over a 40% drop over the period 2000 to 2010. By 2017 the population was estimated to have grown to around 300 people. The village has a Roman Catholic church and a small Baptist church ("Boquillas Bautista Iglesia"). In 2010 the religious breakdown of Boquillas del Carmen was: