County profile ยท Massachusetts
Working from home in Middlesex County, MA
24.7% of workers in Middlesex County usually work from home, about 219,412 of 888,792 people. That is 6.1 points above the Massachusetts average of 18.6%. It ranks 1 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
24.7%
Rank in MA
1 of 14
1 = highest share
Remote workers
219,412
Mean commute
29.9 min
Middlesex County compared with Massachusetts and the US
| Metric | Middlesex County | Massachusetts | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 24.7% | 18.6% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 54.2% | 61.2% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 7.2% | 6.5% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 29.9 min | 29.1 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 24.3% | 18.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 25.1% | 19.3% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 888,792 | 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 alone54.2%
Worked from home24.7%
Public transit7.2%
Counties with a similar rank
- Norfolk County22.8%
- Dukes County21.6%
- Suffolk County19.9%
- Hampshire County18.4%
Largest counties in Massachusetts
- Worcester County15.6%
- Suffolk County19.9%
- Essex County16.4%
- Norfolk County22.8%
- Bristol County11.1%
- Plymouth County16.2%
- Hampden County10.5%
- Barnstable County16.0%