What percent of jobs in the Las Vegas, NV area are held by immigrants?
Data updated May 22, 2024
About 27.0% of jobs in 2022 were held by immigrants. Immigrants are defined as foreign-born residents, including those who became US citizens, are authorized to work in the US, or are undocumented residents.
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In 2022
3 in 11
employed workers were immigrants
In 2022
27%
of employed workers were immigrants
In the Las Vegas, NV area, immigrants hold 27.0% of jobs, while they make up 26.3% of the total working-age population. This indicates a slightly higher employment rate than expected. The working-age population includes everyone aged 16 and above.
In 2022, a larger percentage of jobs were held by immigrants in the Las Vegas, NV area than the US average
Immigrant participation in the workforce varied across industries. In the Las Vegas, NV area, the largest gap between foreign-born and native-born workers was in the leisure/hospitality industry, where 30.4% of the foreign-born working-age population were employed compared to 19.8% of native-born workers. This significant gap highlights the differing employment patterns between foreign-born and native-born workers in this sector.
The percentage of employed people varies between different sectors
Percentage of employed population in 2022
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The labor force participation rate — the percentage of the working-age population working or actively seeking work — for immigrants in the Las Vegas, NV area was 63.8%, higher than the 63.2% rate for the native-born population. This indicates that immigrants participated in the labor force at a higher rate than the native-born population in the state.
