County profile ยท Georgia
Working from home in Newton County, GA
12.3% of workers in Newton County usually work from home, about 6,700 of 54,689 people. That is 3.6 points below the Georgia average of 15.9%. It ranks 24 of 159 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Georgia remote work page.
Work from home
12.3%
Rank in GA
24 of 159
1 = highest share
Remote workers
6,700
Mean commute
35.9 min
Newton County compared with Georgia and the US
| Metric | Newton County | Georgia | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 12.3% | 15.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 74.7% | 70.9% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.4% | 1.1% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 35.9 min | 28.3 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 7.1% | 14.6% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 17.0% | 17.4% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 54,689 | 5,149,633 | 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 alone74.7%
Worked from home12.3%
Public transit0.4%
Counties with a similar rank
- Walton County13.2%
- Jones County13.0%
- Terrell County12.4%
- Jackson County12.3%
- Turner County12.2%
- Muscogee County12.1%
- Peach County12.1%
- White County12.1%
Largest counties in Georgia
- Fulton County29.1%
- Gwinnett County18.4%
- Cobb County23.6%
- DeKalb County22.6%
- Cherokee County21.9%
- Chatham County11.6%
- Clayton County10.6%
- Forsyth County32.5%