County profile ยท Iowa
Working from home in O'Brien County, IA
7.1% of workers in O'Brien County usually work from home, about 493 of 6,937 people. That is 4.2 points below the Iowa average of 11.3%. It ranks 70 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
7.1%
Rank in IA
70 of 99
1 = highest share
Remote workers
493
Mean commute
19.0 min
O'Brien County compared with Iowa and the US
| Metric | O'Brien County | Iowa | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 7.1% | 11.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 79.3% | 76.0% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.3% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 19.0 min | 19.8 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 5.1% | 10.2% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 9.7% | 12.5% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 6,937 | 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 alone79.3%
Worked from home7.1%
Public transit0.3%
Counties with a similar rank
- Kossuth County7.2%
- Allamakee County7.1%
- Hancock County7.1%
- Marshall County7.1%
- Henry County7.0%
- Clinton County6.8%
- Emmet County6.8%
- Butler County6.5%
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%