County profile ยท Iowa
Working from home in Tama County, IA
8.7% of workers in Tama County usually work from home, about 689 of 7,899 people. That is 2.6 points below the Iowa average of 11.3%. It ranks 51 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
8.7%
Rank in IA
51 of 99
1 = highest share
Remote workers
689
Mean commute
22.7 min
Tama County compared with Iowa and the US
| Metric | Tama County | Iowa | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 8.7% | 11.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 78.9% | 76.0% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.1% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 22.7 min | 19.8 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 7.7% | 10.2% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 10.0% | 12.5% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 7,899 | 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 alone78.9%
Worked from home8.7%
Public transit0.1%
Counties with a similar rank
- Plymouth County9.2%
- Monroe County9.0%
- Black Hawk County8.9%
- Clarke County8.9%
- Cherokee County8.6%
- Appanoose County8.5%
- Buchanan County8.4%
- Clayton County8.3%
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%