County profile ยท Iowa
Working from home in Benton County, IA
11.5% of workers in Benton County usually work from home, about 1,499 of 13,051 people. That is 0.2 points above the Iowa average of 11.3%. It ranks 19 of 99 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Iowa remote work page.
Work from home
11.5%
Rank in IA
19 of 99
1 = highest share
Remote workers
1,499
Mean commute
24.9 min
Benton County compared with Iowa and the US
| Metric | Benton County | Iowa | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 11.5% | 11.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 78.0% | 76.0% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.1% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 24.9 min | 19.8 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 9.5% | 10.2% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 13.9% | 12.5% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 13,051 | 1,611,395 | 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 alone78.0%
Worked from home11.5%
Public transit0.1%
Counties with a similar rank
- Jones County11.9%
- Mitchell County11.9%
- Guthrie County11.8%
- Story County11.8%
- Davis County11.5%
- Bremer County11.3%
- Worth County11.3%
- Adair County11.2%
Largest counties in Iowa
- Polk County15.7%
- Linn County14.7%
- Scott County10.9%
- Johnson County13.7%
- Black Hawk County8.9%
- Dallas County20.2%
- Story County11.8%
- Woodbury County5.6%