Foreign-born Workers
Foriegn-born workers are a sizable and important component of the construction workforce. As of 2022, immigrant workers represented nearly a quarter of the employed construction workforce and nearly a third of construction trades. As the dashboard below shows, almost 4 in 5 of foreign-born construction workers from 2011 to 2023 were Hispanic; this group can be explored more thoroughly in the foreign-born Hispanic worker dashboard.
This interactive dashboard analyzes trends in foreign-born workers from 2011 to 2023 by industry, and Hispanic ethnicity. The second half of the dashboard focuses on non-Hispanic foreign-born workers in the industry. There is one dashboard-level filter Year and one chart-level filter Demographic, both of which will update the charts and the bolded and underlined key findings.
Following the interactive dashboard, you will find more information on the data source, definitions, chart notes, a downloadable data file, and recommended citation. This interactive data dashboard corresponds to a chapter in the upcoming PDF version of the Construction Chart Book-7th edition, which will be published this summer. Data will be updated annually as available. If you have any questions or comments, please email [email protected].
About the Data
Sarah Flood, Miriam King, Renae Rodgers, Steven Ruggles, J. Robert Warren, Daniel Backman, Annie Chen, Grace Cooper, Stephanie Richards, Megan Schouweiler, and Michael Westberry. IPUMS CPS: Version 12.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS, 2024. https://doi.org/10.18128/D030.V12.0
Definitions
- Foreign-born workers – Workers who were not born in the U.S. nor born abroad to native-born U.S. citizens.