15 Cities With the Most Women in Construction

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Building has lengthy been a male-dominated discipline. In keeping with lately launched knowledge from the U.S. Census Bureau, solely 11.7% of payroll staff within the development trade are girls. Nonetheless, a shift is underway.

Lately, the Division of Labor’s Girls in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) grant program has allotted thousands and thousands of {dollars} to bolster girls’s participation in industries like development.

And with the development trade going through a massive worker shortage — estimated at 349,000 staff — recruiting girls into development roles has change into a necessity for sustaining progress and assembly demand.

Whereas girls stay underrepresented within the workforce, the info reveals a gradual but constant upward development in feminine employment inside the development sector.

Whereas the development trade stays male-dominated nationally, the underrepresentation of girls in development is much less pronounced in sure elements of the nation. This variation highlights regional variations in workforce dynamics, compensation ranges, and diversification efforts inside the trade.

To search out the cities with probably the most feminine development employment, researchers at Building Protection analyzed knowledge from the U.S. Census Bureau. For extra data, seek advice from the methodology part on the finish.

Listed here are the cities the place probably the most girls work in development jobs.

15. Colorado Springs, CO

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 13.6%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 3,773
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 23,977
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $62,033

14. Deltona-Daytona Seaside-Ormond Seaside, FL

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 13.8%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 3,587
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 22,357
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $53,284

13. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 13.9%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 12,835
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 79,467
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $70,414

12. Virginia Seaside-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 14.0%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 7,160
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 44,161
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $58,880

11. Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 14.0%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 16,468
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 101,567
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $52,682

10. New Orleans-Metairie, LA

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 14.2%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 5,147
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 31,059
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $50,978

9. Charlotte-Harmony-Gastonia, NC-SC

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 14.2%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 15,338
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 92,351
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $51,634

8. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 14.2%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 20,029
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 121,124
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $82,512

7. Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 14.5%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 2,994
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 17,612
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $51,318

6. North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 14.5%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 5,228
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 30,866
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $56,608

5. Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 14.6%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 4,597
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 26,799
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $53,735

4. Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 14.6%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 6,583
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 38,463
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $50,569

3. Austin-Spherical Rock-San Marcos, TX

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 14.9%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 14,045
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 79,903
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $59,836

2. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 15.7%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 16,565
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 89,255
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $52,248

1. Jacksonville, FL

• Feminine employment share within the development trade: 17.4%
• Complete feminine employment within the development trade: 10,278
• Complete male employment within the development trade: 48,926
• Median earnings for full-time staff within the development trade: $57,576

Methodology

The information used on this evaluation is from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2024 American Community Survey. As a result of pattern dimension constraints, one-year estimates had been used for nationwide statistics, whereas five-year estimates had been used for state and MSA statistics.

To find out the places with probably the most girls in development, researchers at Building Protection ranked places by the share of staff within the development trade which are feminine. Within the occasion of a tie, places with the upper complete feminine employment within the development trade had been ranked greater.

Moreover, attributable to statistical significance limitations of the dataset, solely the highest 100 metropolitan areas by inhabitants with full knowledge had been included within the evaluation.