What percent of jobs in the Urban Honolulu, HI area are held by immigrants?
Data updated May 22, 2024
About 22.9% of jobs in the Urban Honolulu, HI area in 2022. 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 13
employed workers were immigrants
In 2022
22.9%
of employed workers were immigrants
While immigrants held 22.9% of jobs, they made up 22.2% of the total working-age population in the Urban Honolulu, HI area. This indicated 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 Urban Honolulu, HI area than the US average
Immigrant participation in the workforce varies across industries. In the Urban Honolulu, HI area, the largest gap between foreign-born and native-born workers was in the leisure/hospitality industry, where 20.6% of the foreign-born working-age population were employed compared to 12.6% of native-born workers. This significant gap highlights the differing employment patterns between foreign-born and native-born workers in the leisure/hospitality sector in the Urban Honolulu, HI area.
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 Urban Honolulu, HI area was 61.1%, higher than the 59.1% rate for the native-born population. This shows that immigrants were seeking work at a higher rate than the native-born population in the state.
