County profile ยท Louisiana
Working from home in Orleans Parish, LA
14.9% of workers in Orleans Parish usually work from home, about 24,958 of 167,719 people. That is 6.8 points above the Louisiana average of 8.1%. It ranks 1 of 64 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Louisiana remote work page.
Work from home
14.9%
Rank in LA
1 of 64
1 = highest share
Remote workers
24,958
Mean commute
22.6 min
Orleans Parish compared with Louisiana and the US
| Metric | Orleans Parish | Louisiana | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 14.9% | 8.1% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 62.1% | 78.6% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 4.5% | 0.9% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 22.6 min | 25.7 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 14.7% | 7.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 15.0% | 9.2% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 167,719 | 1,988,865 | 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 alone62.1%
Worked from home14.9%
Public transit4.5%
Counties with a similar rank
- St. Tammany Parish13.2%
- Catahoula Parish13.1%
- Lincoln Parish11.5%
- Lafayette Parish10.4%
Largest counties in Louisiana
- East Baton Rouge Parish8.6%
- Jefferson Parish8.2%
- St. Tammany Parish13.2%
- Lafayette Parish10.4%
- Caddo Parish6.5%
- Calcasieu Parish5.6%
- Ouachita Parish8.3%
- Livingston Parish7.2%