This Fact for Features “fact compilation” from the U.S. Census looks at the Mexican population, trade with Mexico, Mexican Businesses, in the U.S. and Mexican food.

Facts include:

+ 29.2 million
Number of U.S. residents of Mexican origin in 2007. These residents constituted 10 percent of the nation’s total population and 64 percent of the Hispanic population

+ 25.8
Median age of people in the United States of Mexican descent. This compares with 36.7 years for the population as a whole.

+ $96.7 billion
Sales and receipts for firms owned by people of Mexican origin in 2002.

+ 347
Number of U.S. tortilla manufacturing establishments in 2006

Source: U.S. Census

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