Cinco de Mayo by the Numbers
Info about
Cinco de Mayo from the Census Bureau
How Many People of Mexican Origin
28.3 million
Number of U.S. residents of Mexican
origin in 2006. These residents constituted 9% of the nation's total
population and 64% of the Hispanic population.
17.86
million
Number of people of Mexican origin who lived either in
California (10.84 million) or Texas (7.02 million). People of Mexican origin
made up more than one-quarter of the residents of these two states. (The
unrounded total for California and Texas combined is 17,866,191.)
25.7
Median age of people in the United States of
Mexican descent. This compares with 36.4 years for the population as a
whole.
630,000
Number of Mexican-Americans who
are U.S. military veterans.
1.2 million
Number
of people of Mexican descent 25 and older with a bachelor's degree or
higher. This includes about 350,000 who have a graduate degree.
37%
Among households where a householder was of
Mexican origin, the percentage of married-couple families with own children
younger than 18. For all households, the corresponding percentage was
22%.
4.1
Average size for families with a
householder of Mexican origin. This compares to 3.2 people in all
families.
14%
Percentage of employed civilians
16 and older of Mexican heritage who worked in managerial, professional or
related occupations. In addition, 23% worked in service occupations; 20% in
sales and office occupations; 19% in construction, extraction, maintenance,
and repair occupations; and 20% in production, transportation, and material
moving occupations.
$37,661
Median household
income in 2006 for households with a householder of Mexican origin.
23%
Poverty rate in 2006 for people of Mexican
heritage.
69%
Percentage of civilians 16 and
older of Mexican origin in the labor force. The percentage was 65% for the
population as a whole. There were 13 million people of Mexican heritage in
the labor force, comprising 9% of the total.
51%
Percentage of householders of Mexican origin
who owned the home in which they lived.
Trade With Mexico
$347.3 billion
The value of goods traded between the
United States and Mexico in 2007. Mexico was our nation's third-leading
trading partner, after Canada and China.
Businesses
701,078
Number of firms owned by people of Mexican
origin in 2002. They comprised almost 45% of all Hispanic-owned firms. Among
these Mexican-owned firms, 275,896 were in California and 235,735 in Texas.
The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, Calif., combined statistical area had
174,292.
$96.7 billion
Sales and receipts for
firms owned by people of Mexican origin in 2002.
Mexican Food
$100.4 million
Product shipment value of tamales
and other Mexican food specialties (not frozen or canned) produced in the
United States in 2002.
337
Number of U.S.
tortilla manufacturing establishments in 2005. The establishments that
produce this unleavened flat bread employed nearly 14,000 people. Tortillas,
the principal food of the Aztecs, are known as the "bread of Mexico." About
one in three of these establishments was in Texas.
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