Snapshot: Tent Goes Up for Woodbury Acapulco’s Cinco de Mayo Festivities

Crews on Friday were setting up a tent in the parking lot in front of Acapulco in Woodbury.

The tent was being erected as part of the restaurant’s Cinco de Mayo festivities, which include food and drink specials.

Cinco de Mayo (May 5) celebrates the 1862 Battle of Puebla, in which a Mexican force of 4,500 men led by Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza faced 6,000 well-trained French soldiers. (Mexican Independence Day is Sept. 16.)

In recognition of Cinco de Mayo, the U.S. Census Bureau provided the following statistics about Mexico.

33.6 million

The number of U.S. residents of Mexican origin.

25.7

Median age of people in the United States of Mexican origin in 2011. The total Hispanic population had a median age of 27.5, and for the total population it was 37.3 in 2011.

12 million

Total number of the Mexican-origin population in the United States that resided in California in 2011. For Texas, the number was 8.6 million.

700,000

Number of U.S. military veterans of Mexican origin in 2011.

1.65 million

Number of people of Mexican descent 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or higher in 2011. This included  450,000 who had a graduate or professional degree.

33.3

Percentage of married-couple families, with own children younger than 18, among households with a householder of Mexican origin in 2011. For all households, the corresponding percentage was 20.0 percent.

4.17

Average size of families with a householder of Mexican origin in 2011. The average size of all families was 3.25 people.

67.4

Percentage 16 and older of Mexican origin in the labor force in 2011. The percentage was 64.0 percent for the population as a whole.

16.4

Percentage of employed civilians 16 years and older of Mexican origin who worked in management, business, science and arts occupations in 2011. In addition, 26.7 percent worked in service occupations; and 21.1 percent in sales and office occupations. With 17.8 percent in natural resources, construction and maintenance occupations and 18.0 percent in production, transportation and material moving occupations these professions are not significantly different in ranking.

11.6 million                                        

Number of U.S. residents of Mexican origin in 2011 who were foreign born, including 53.4 percent male and 46.6 percent female.

74.6

Percentage of Mexican-origin people who spoke a language other than English at home in 2011; among these people, 34.3 percent spoke English less than “very well.” Among the population as a whole, the corresponding figures were 20.8 percent and 8.7 percent, respectively.

$494.0 billion

The value of total goods traded between the United States and Mexico in 2012. Mexico was the nation’s third-leading trading partner, after Canada and China. The leading U.S. export commodity to Mexico in 2012 was light oils and preparations ($11.7 billion); the leading U.S. import commodity from Mexico in 2012 was crude oil ($37.3 billion).

367

Number of U.S. tortilla manufacturing establishments in 2010, with 116 of these establishments located in Texas. The establishments that produce this unleavened flat bread employed 16,143 people. Tortillas, the principal food of the Aztecs, are known as the “bread of Mexico.”

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