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traction, maintenance and repair occu- pations; and 18 percent in production, transportation and material moving occupations.
$39,115 Median income in 2009 for house-
holds with a householder of Mexi- can origin. For the population as a whole, the corresponding amount was $50,221.
25.1% Poverty rate in 2009 for all people of
Mexican heritage. For the population as a whole, the corresponding rate was 14.3 percent.
69.0% Percentage of civilians 16 and older
of Mexican origin in the labor force. The percentage was 65 percent for the population as a whole. There were 14.5 million people of Mexican heritage in the labor force, comprising 9 percent of the total.
49.7% Percentage of householders of Mex-
ican origin in occupied housing units who owned the home in which they lived. This compared with 65.9 percent for the population as a whole.
11.4 million or 36.0% Number and percentage of Mexican-
origin people who were foreign-born; 2.6 million of them were naturalized citizens. Among the population as a whole, 12.5 percent were foreign-born.
76% Percentage of Mexican-origin peo- ple who spoke a language other than
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English at home; among these people, 37 percent spoke English less than “very well.” Among the population as a whole, the corresponding figures were 20 percent and 9 percent, respec- tively.
Trade With Mexico
$393.0 billion The value of total goods traded be-
tween the United States and Mexico in 2010. Mexico was our nation’s third- leading trading partner, after Canada and China. The leading U.S. export com- modity to Mexico in 2010 was unleaded gasoline ($5.9 billion); the leading U.S. import commodity from Mexico in 2010 was crude petroleum ($22.6 billion).
Businesses
Source for statements in this section: Hispanic-Owned Firms: 2007.
1.0 million Number of firms owned by people
of Mexican origin in 2007. They ac- counted for 45.8 percent of all Hispan- ic-owned firms. Mexicans led all His- panic subgroups.
$155.5 billion Sales and receipts for firms owned
by people of Mexican origin in 2007, 45.1 percent of all Hispanic-owned firm receipts.
70.5% Percent of all Mexican-owned U.S. businesses located in either California or Texas. California had the most Mex- ican-owned U.S. firms (36.1 percent), followed by Texas (34.4 percent) and Arizona (4.1 percent).
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47.7% Percentage increase in the number
of businesses owned by people of Mex- ican origin between 2002 and 2007.
16.5% Ratio of Mexican-owned firms to
all firms in Texas, which led all states. New Mexico was next (15.1 percent), followed by California (10.9 percent), Arizona (8.6 percent) and Nevada (4.9 percent).
32.3% Percentage of Mexican-owned U.S.
firms in the construction and repair, maintenance, personal and laundry services sectors. Mexican-owned firms accounted for 5.1 percent of all U.S. businesses in these sectors.
Mexican Food $100.4 million
Product shipment value of ta-
males and other Mexican food spe- cialties (not frozen or canned) pro- duced in the United States in 2002.
$48.9 million Product shipment value of frozen en-
chiladas produced in the United States in 2002. Frozen tortilla shipments were valued even higher, at $156 million.
374 Number of U.S. tortilla manufac-
turing establishments in 2008. The establishments that produce this unleavened flat bread employed 16,311 people. Tortillas, the princi- pal food of the Aztecs, are known as the “bread of Mexico.” One in three of these establishments was in Texas.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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