County profile ยท Illinois
Working from home in Lake County, IL
19.5% of workers in Lake County usually work from home, about 70,334 of 360,949 people. That is 3.6 points above the Illinois average of 15.9%. It ranks 3 of 102 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Illinois remote work page.
Work from home
19.5%
Rank in IL
3 of 102
1 = highest share
Remote workers
70,334
Mean commute
28.5 min
Lake County compared with Illinois and the US
| Metric | Lake County | Illinois | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 19.5% | 15.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 65.7% | 65.9% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 2.7% | 5.8% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 28.5 min | 27.8 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 18.6% | 14.7% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 20.5% | 17.2% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 360,949 | 6,152,715 | 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 alone65.7%
Worked from home19.5%
Public transit2.7%
Counties with a similar rank
- DuPage County21.5%
- Calhoun County20.1%
- Cook County18.9%
- McLean County17.5%
- McHenry County16.1%
- Kane County15.9%
Largest counties in Illinois
- Cook County18.9%
- DuPage County21.5%
- Will County14.7%
- Kane County15.9%
- McHenry County16.1%
- Madison County12.7%
- Winnebago County9.8%
- St. Clair County12.4%