County profile ยท Kentucky
Working from home in Shelby County, KY
12.6% of workers in Shelby County usually work from home, about 2,950 of 23,403 people. That is 2.4 points above the Kentucky average of 10.2%. It ranks 10 of 120 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Kentucky remote work page.
Work from home
12.6%
Rank in KY
10 of 120
1 = highest share
Remote workers
2,950
Mean commute
27.2 min
Shelby County compared with Kentucky and the US
| Metric | Shelby County | Kentucky | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 12.6% | 10.2% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 76.0% | 76.6% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.2% | 0.6% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 27.2 min | 24.0 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 10.7% | 8.7% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 14.6% | 11.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 23,403 | 2,017,413 | 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 alone76.0%
Worked from home12.6%
Public transit0.2%
Counties with a similar rank
- Kenton County14.1%
- Adair County13.7%
- Boone County13.4%
- Spencer County13.3%
- Clark County12.3%
- Fayette County12.2%
- Todd County12.1%
- Lewis County12.0%
Largest counties in Kentucky
- Jefferson County14.2%
- Fayette County12.2%
- Kenton County14.1%
- Boone County13.4%
- Warren County7.6%
- Hardin County9.2%
- Campbell County17.1%
- Daviess County6.1%