County profile ยท Massachusetts
Working from home in Norfolk County, MA
22.8% of workers in Norfolk County usually work from home, about 87,952 of 385,073 people. That is 4.2 points above the Massachusetts average of 18.6%. It ranks 2 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
22.8%
Rank in MA
2 of 14
1 = highest share
Remote workers
87,952
Mean commute
32.5 min
Norfolk County compared with Massachusetts and the US
| Metric | Norfolk County | Massachusetts | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 22.8% | 18.6% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 57.4% | 61.2% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 8.7% | 6.5% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 32.5 min | 29.1 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 22.4% | 18.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 23.3% | 19.3% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 385,073 | 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 alone57.4%
Worked from home22.8%
Public transit8.7%
Counties with a similar rank
- Middlesex County24.7%
- Dukes County21.6%
- Suffolk County19.9%
- Hampshire County18.4%
- Essex County16.4%
Largest counties in Massachusetts
- Middlesex County24.7%
- Worcester County15.6%
- Suffolk County19.9%
- Essex County16.4%
- Bristol County11.1%
- Plymouth County16.2%
- Hampden County10.5%
- Barnstable County16.0%