County profile ยท Alabama
Working from home in Houston County, AL
4.6% of workers in Houston County usually work from home, about 2,183 of 47,016 people. That is 4.2 points below the Alabama average of 8.8%. It ranks 42 of 67 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Alabama remote work page.
Work from home
4.6%
Rank in AL
42 of 67
1 = highest share
Remote workers
2,183
Mean commute
22.1 min
Houston County compared with Alabama and the US
| Metric | Houston County | Alabama | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 4.6% | 8.8% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 85.0% | 80.6% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.2% | 0.3% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 22.1 min | 25.5 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 4.1% | 7.7% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 5.3% | 10.1% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 47,016 | 2,229,079 | 159,114,094 |
The US column is calculated from the published state counts for the 50 states and DC. Other national metrics are not part of our data files, so we do not show them.
How people commute
Drove alone85.0%
Worked from home4.6%
Public transit0.2%
Counties with a similar rank
- Pickens County5.0%
- Bibb County4.8%
- Greene County4.7%
- Jackson County4.7%
- Marengo County4.6%
- Lowndes County4.5%
- Perry County4.5%
- Chambers County4.4%
Largest counties in Alabama
- Jefferson County11.1%
- Madison County15.1%
- Mobile County8.3%
- Shelby County16.9%
- Baldwin County11.6%
- Tuscaloosa County7.4%
- Montgomery County8.0%
- Lee County9.5%