White construction workers now make up less than half of the industry workforce in New York City, according to a newspaper's analysis of Census data.
"White construction workers still make up a plurality of builders in the five boroughs, but that number has fallen to 40 percent between 2009 and 2010, from 48 percent of the construction workforce," the New York Observer reported.
At the same time, the construction workforce shrank 3.8 percent.
Asians increased 12 percent in the mix, the paper said.
The report added that the data included both information from employers and self-supplied information from "off-the-books" workers.
