County profile ยท Iowa
Working from home in Palo Alto County, IA
4.9% of workers in Palo Alto County usually work from home, about 226 of 4,573 people. That is 6.4 points below the Iowa average of 11.3%. It ranks 92 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
4.9%
Rank in IA
92 of 99
1 = highest share
Remote workers
226
Mean commute
17.2 min
Palo Alto County compared with Iowa and the US
| Metric | Palo Alto County | Iowa | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 4.9% | 11.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 77.4% | 76.0% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.5% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 17.2 min | 19.8 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 3.0% | 10.2% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 7.3% | 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 alone77.4%
Worked from home4.9%
Public transit0.5%
Counties with a similar rank
- Page County5.6%
- Woodbury County5.6%
- Wapello County5.5%
- Pocahontas County5.4%
- Sac County4.7%
- Union County4.6%
- Webster County4.6%
- Lucas County4.3%
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%