County profile ยท Massachusetts
Working from home in Essex County, MA
16.4% of workers in Essex County usually work from home, about 68,236 of 415,471 people. That is 2.2 points below the Massachusetts average of 18.6%. It ranks 6 of 14 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Massachusetts remote work page.
Work from home
16.4%
Rank in MA
6 of 14
1 = highest share
Remote workers
68,236
Mean commute
28.5 min
Essex County compared with Massachusetts and the US
| Metric | Essex County | Massachusetts | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 16.4% | 18.6% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 67.6% | 61.2% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 3.5% | 6.5% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 28.5 min | 29.1 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 15.8% | 18.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 17.1% | 19.3% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 415,471 | 3,629,298 | 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 alone67.6%
Worked from home16.4%
Public transit3.5%
Counties with a similar rank
- Norfolk County22.8%
- Dukes County21.6%
- Suffolk County19.9%
- Hampshire County18.4%
- Plymouth County16.2%
- Barnstable County16.0%
- Worcester County15.6%
- Franklin County15.1%
Largest counties in Massachusetts
- Middlesex County24.7%
- Worcester County15.6%
- Suffolk County19.9%
- Norfolk County22.8%
- Bristol County11.1%
- Plymouth County16.2%
- Hampden County10.5%
- Barnstable County16.0%