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Working from home in Polk County, FL
12.4% of workers in Polk County usually work from home, about 42,804 of 345,479 people. That is 3.3 points below the Florida average of 15.7%. It ranks 34 of 67 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Florida remote work page.
Work from home
12.4%
Rank in FL
34 of 67
1 = highest share
Remote workers
42,804
Mean commute
30.5 min
Polk County compared with Florida and the US
| Metric | Polk County | Florida | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 12.4% | 15.7% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 75.0% | 70.2% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.4% | 1.2% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 30.5 min | 28.0 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 10.1% | 14.4% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 14.9% | 17.1% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 345,479 | 10,356,895 | 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 alone75.0%
Worked from home12.4%
Public transit0.4%
Counties with a similar rank
- Indian River County13.6%
- Osceola County13.3%
- Monroe County13.2%
- Santa Rosa County12.7%
- St. Lucie County12.1%
- Marion County12.0%
- Bradford County10.6%
- Bay County10.1%
Largest counties in Florida
- Miami-Dade County14.0%
- Broward County14.7%
- Hillsborough County20.7%
- Orange County17.7%
- Palm Beach County15.4%
- Duval County16.0%
- Pinellas County20.0%
- Lee County15.4%