NEW YORK CITY—A recent analysis of the city's construction employment data offered mixed results in terms of the industry's push for a more diverse workforce. The New York Building Congress report released Wednesday notes that a total of 250,270 men and women were employed in the construction industry throughout the five boroughs in '16, a decrease of 1% from 2015.

The Building Congress review of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey statistics showed the number of white non-Hispanic workers outpaced Hispanic workers in '16. Those results were a reversal of trends from '15, but adhered to the larger demographic trends since 2005. The percentage of women in the industry remained the same and showed little improvement from previous years.

Workers who self-identify as white increased from 95,841 to 100,326 (40% of the workforce) in 2016, compared to a decrease from 95,874 to 88,788 (36% of the workforce) of Hispanic workers. Non-white workers comprised 60% of the workforce in 2016, a decrease of 2.3% from 2015's totals.