Nashville’s preempted local hire ballot measure would have secured more jobs for workers of color: Demographic comparison of construction workers in Nashville, the Nashville metro area, and Tennessee
| White | Black | Latinx | AAPI/other | U.S. citizen | Not a U.S. citizen | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 73.00% | 7.10% | 18.20% | 1.70% | ||
| Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, TN | 65.90% | 7.10% | 25.10% | 1.90% | ||
| Nashville | 36.90% | 14.50% | 46.20% | 2.50% | ||
| Tennessee | 83.9% | 16.10% | ||||
| Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, TN | 77.0% | 23.00% | ||||
| Nashville | 55.0% | 45.00% |
Note: Nashville refers to the consolidated city-county metro of Nashville-Davidson County. Nashville accounts for the vast majority of Davidson County’s population and the city and county governments have been consolidated since 1963 (Bucy n.d.).
Source: EPI analysis of five-year 2018 American Community Survey microdata.