County profile ยท Iowa
Working from home in Van Buren County, IA
12.7% of workers in Van Buren County usually work from home, about 385 of 3,036 people. That is 1.4 points above the Iowa average of 11.3%. It ranks 11 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
12.7%
Rank in IA
11 of 99
1 = highest share
Remote workers
385
Mean commute
22.5 min
Van Buren County compared with Iowa and the US
| Metric | Van Buren County | Iowa | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 12.7% | 11.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 67.2% | 76.0% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.4% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 22.5 min | 19.8 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 12.4% | 10.2% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 13.1% | 12.5% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 3,036 | 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 alone67.2%
Worked from home12.7%
Public transit0.4%
Counties with a similar rank
- Poweshiek County14.0%
- Johnson County13.7%
- Shelby County12.8%
- Sioux County12.8%
- Cedar County12.1%
- Winneshiek County12.1%
- Dubuque County12.0%
- Jones County11.9%
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%