Industry · Agriculture
Agriculture & Food Systems: The 78 / 3 inversion.
Seventy-eight percent of farmworkers are Latino. Three percent of farm owners are Latino. The same inversion repeats up the entire food system.
The Breakdown
Latino representation across sub-occupations.
Gold line = 19.5% U.S. Latino population parity (Census ACS 2023). Each row sourced individually below.
Farmworkers
78%
DOL NAWS 2022
Farm Owners / Operators
3.2%
USDA Census of Agriculture 2022
Agricultural Scientists
~7%
NSF NCSES 2024
USDA Workforce
~9%
OPM FedScope 2023
Food Service Workers
26%
BLS 2023
Food Service Owners
~10%
SBA / Census 2022
Primary source: USDA (2022). Census of Agriculture. U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Why This Matters
The mechanism inside this number.
Agriculture is the only sector where Latinos hold the majority of the workforce. It is also the sector with the steepest drop-off from worker to owner. a 75-point gap. Land, capital, and inheritance are the mechanisms.
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