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.