Raleigh in top 10 for percentage of women real estate agents

In residential actual estate, a area dominated by women of all ages nationwide, Raleigh still stands out.

Nearly 64% of the authentic estate agents in Raleigh are female, the ninth maximum proportion among huge metropolitan places nationwide, according to a new analyze by Building Protection.

The state as a whole ranks lower than the national ordinary, on the other hand, with women of all ages accounting for a lot less than 53% of all North Carolina actual estate agents, the research found.

According to the most recent information from the Census Bureau, gathered in 2020, girls account for 56% of all serious estate brokers in the U.S.

Design Protection analyzed details from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Stats and on the web genuine estate marketplace Zillow.

Throughout the nation, 4 in 10 female actual estate agents operate component time, they discovered, even though less than 27% of gentlemen are component-time in the career.

“Because the real estate profession offers high earnings potential, flexible schedules for families, and a small barrier to entry, it draws in a massive amount of gals who are searching for a vocation modify, a second job, or coming back to the workforce after a vocation crack,” examine writer Jonathan Jones wrote.

Below are the 10 metropolitan areas with the optimum percentages of feminine genuine estate brokers:

1. Rochester, New York: 81.5%
2. Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, South Carolina: 70.5%
3. Louisville, Kentucky, and Jefferson County, Indiana: 69.8%
4. Columbus, Ohio: 69.7%
5. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: 69.3%
6. New Orleans-Metairie, Louisiana: 67.5%
7. Providence-Warwick, Rhode Island: 65.4%
8. Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, Nevada: 65.3%
9. Raleigh, North Carolina: 63.7%
10. Tucson, Arizona: 63.2%

The Charlotte-Harmony-Gastonia metro spot rings in at No. 40, with 50.9% of its actual estate brokers determining as woman.