San Francisco's Mexican restaurants
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San Francisco is among the top 50 counties in the U.S. with the highest concentration of Mexican restaurants.
Why it matters: The proliferation of Mexican restaurants — once staples only of the Southwest and parts of the Midwest — highlights the growing influence of Mexican Americans on U.S. culture and the effects of increased migration from Mexico over the last 30 years, Axios' Russell Contreras writes.
Driving the news: About 99% of Americans live near at least one Mexican eatery, a recent Pew Research Center analysis of data from SafeGraph found.
- San Francisco has 338, which is about four restaurants per 10,000 residents.
The big picture: About 37.2 million people in the U.S. trace their ancestry to Mexico, making Mexican Americans by far the largest Hispanic origin group in the nation, per Pew.
- They represent 11% of the total U.S. population and could surpass Black Americans, who comprise 12.5% of the nation's population, in the next decade.
Zoom in: About 15.9% of San Francisco's population is Latino or Hispanic, of which most identify as Mexican, U.S. Census data shows.