County profile ยท Iowa
Working from home in Polk County, IA
15.7% of workers in Polk County usually work from home, about 41,667 of 264,612 people. That is 4.4 points above the Iowa average of 11.3%. It ranks 4 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
15.7%
Rank in IA
4 of 99
1 = highest share
Remote workers
41,667
Mean commute
20.0 min
Polk County compared with Iowa and the US
| Metric | Polk County | Iowa | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 15.7% | 11.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 72.4% | 76.0% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.5% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 20.0 min | 19.8 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 14.7% | 10.2% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 16.9% | 12.5% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 264,612 | 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 alone72.4%
Worked from home15.7%
Public transit0.5%
Counties with a similar rank
- Dallas County20.2%
- Jefferson County18.2%
- Madison County17.4%
- Warren County15.3%
- Linn County14.7%
- Poweshiek County14.0%
- Johnson County13.7%
Largest counties in Iowa
- Linn County14.7%
- Scott County10.9%
- Johnson County13.7%
- Black Hawk County8.9%
- Dallas County20.2%
- Story County11.8%
- Woodbury County5.6%
- Dubuque County12.0%