County profile ยท Iowa
Working from home in Howard County, IA
10.0% of workers in Howard County usually work from home, about 459 of 4,573 people. That is 1.3 points below the Iowa average of 11.3%. It ranks 33 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
10.0%
Rank in IA
33 of 99
1 = highest share
Remote workers
459
Mean commute
23.2 min
Howard County compared with Iowa and the US
| Metric | Howard County | Iowa | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 10.0% | 11.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 76.4% | 76.0% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.0% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 23.2 min | 19.8 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 6.5% | 10.2% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 14.2% | 12.5% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 4,573 | 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 alone76.4%
Worked from home10.0%
Public transit0.0%
Counties with a similar rank
- Mills County10.1%
- Adams County10.0%
- Cass County10.0%
- Chickasaw County10.0%
- Montgomery County10.0%
- Ringgold County10.0%
- Lyon County9.8%
- Pottawattamie County9.8%
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%