A majority of Nashville’s construction workers are people of color and half were born outside of the U.S.: Demographics of construction workers in Tennessee
| Tennessee | Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, TN | Nashville-Davidson County | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workers | Share | Workers | Share | Workers | Share | |
| All construction workers | 139,400 | 100.0% | 51,200 | 100.0% | 17,000 | 100.0% |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| White | 101,800 | 73.0% | 33,700 | 65.9% | 6,300 | 36.9% |
| Black | 9,900 | 7.1% | 3,600 | 7.1% | 2,500 | 14.5% |
| Latinx | 25,300 | 18.2% | 12,800 | 25.1% | 7,900 | 46.2% |
| AAPI/other | 2,400 | 1.7% | 1,000 | 1.9% | 400 | 2.5% |
| Gender | ||||||
| Men | 126,200 | 90.5% | 46,000 | 89.9% | 15,500 | 90.9% |
| Women | 13,200 | 9.5% | 5,200 | 10.1% | 1,500 | 9.1% |
| Citizenship | ||||||
| U.S.-born | 114,500 | 82.1% | 38,000 | 74.3% | 8,600 | 50.5% |
| Naturalized U.S. citizen | 2,600 | 1.8% | 1,400 | 2.7% | 800 | 4.6% |
| Not a U.S. citizen | 22,400 | 16.1% | 11,800 | 23.0% | 7,700 | 45.0% |
Source: EPI analysis of five-year 2018 American Community Survey microdata.