County profile ยท Illinois
Working from home in Macon County, IL
8.3% of workers in Macon County usually work from home, about 3,594 of 43,182 people. That is 7.6 points below the Illinois average of 15.9%. It ranks 46 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
8.3%
Rank in IL
46 of 102
1 = highest share
Remote workers
3,594
Mean commute
19.4 min
Macon County compared with Illinois and the US
| Metric | Macon County | Illinois | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 8.3% | 15.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 80.8% | 65.9% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.9% | 5.8% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 19.4 min | 27.8 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 6.2% | 14.7% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 10.4% | 17.2% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 43,182 | 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 alone80.8%
Worked from home8.3%
Public transit0.9%
Counties with a similar rank
- Logan County8.7%
- Rock Island County8.6%
- Cumberland County8.5%
- Lawrence County8.4%
- Bond County8.2%
- Jasper County8.2%
- Mason County8.2%
- Kankakee County8.1%
Largest counties in Illinois
- Cook County18.9%
- DuPage County21.5%
- Lake County19.5%
- Will County14.7%
- Kane County15.9%
- McHenry County16.1%
- Madison County12.7%
- Winnebago County9.8%