County profile ยท Illinois
Working from home in Union County, IL
6.2% of workers in Union County usually work from home, about 418 of 6,717 people. That is 9.7 points below the Illinois average of 15.9%. It ranks 72 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
6.2%
Rank in IL
72 of 102
1 = highest share
Remote workers
418
Mean commute
24.4 min
Union County compared with Illinois and the US
| Metric | Union County | Illinois | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 6.2% | 15.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 81.4% | 65.9% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 2.0% | 5.8% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 24.4 min | 27.8 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 5.3% | 14.7% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 7.3% | 17.2% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 6,717 | 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 alone81.4%
Worked from home6.2%
Public transit2.0%
Counties with a similar rank
- Carroll County6.8%
- Marshall County6.6%
- Shelby County6.5%
- Richland County6.4%
- Whiteside County6.1%
- Douglas County6.0%
- Pike County5.9%
- White County5.8%
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%