Table 1.

Proportion of Essential and High Exposure Risk Workers by Hispanic/Latino Ethnicity and Nativity. U.S. non-institutionalized employed population living in 27 large MSAs* (2015–2019 American Community Survey).

	US-Born Hispanic median [IQR]	Foreign-Born Hispanic median [IQR]	Non-Hispanic White median [IQR]	Total median [IQR]
Weighted population Total (N)	(14,655,561) 12.9% [4.2%, 20.5%]	(16,704,709) 13.1% [5.5%, 19.1%]	(69,750,544) 74.4% [61.4%, 89.4%]	101,110,814 100%
High Exposure Risk workers	50.6% [47.2%, 54.2%]	51.2% [47.2%, 54.2%]	49.7% [49.1%, 51.0%]	50.4% [48.7%, 52.0%]
Essential Occupations	65.2% [63.5%, 67.4%]	69.4% [68.1%, 71.0%]	62.5% [60.8%, 63.4%]	65.4% [62.7%, 68.5%]
Essential Occupations- High Risk	43.9% [42.1%, 46.3%]	40.3% [39.3%, 41.5%]	39.2% [38.4%, 40.31%]	40.4% [39.1%, 42.4%]
Essential Occupation-Low Risk	40.1% [37.9%, 42.6%]	42.2% [38.4%, 44.7%]	38.3% [37.0%, 40.1%]	40.2% [37.9%, 42.5%]

Footnote: numbers are median [Interquartile range: Quartile 1, Quartile 3]. Categorization of essential and high risk are not mutually exclusive *part of BCHC.