County profile ยท Massachusetts
Working from home in Worcester County, MA
15.6% of workers in Worcester County usually work from home, about 67,999 of 436,993 people. That is 3.0 points below the Massachusetts average of 18.6%. It ranks 9 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
15.6%
Rank in MA
9 of 14
1 = highest share
Remote workers
67,999
Mean commute
29.2 min
Worcester County compared with Massachusetts and the US
| Metric | Worcester County | Massachusetts | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 15.6% | 18.6% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 70.5% | 61.2% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 1.5% | 6.5% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 29.2 min | 29.1 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 15.0% | 18.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 16.2% | 19.3% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 436,993 | 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 alone70.5%
Worked from home15.6%
Public transit1.5%
Counties with a similar rank
- Hampshire County18.4%
- Essex County16.4%
- Plymouth County16.2%
- Barnstable County16.0%
- Franklin County15.1%
- Berkshire County14.2%
- Nantucket County13.0%
- Bristol County11.1%
Largest counties in Massachusetts
- Middlesex County24.7%
- Suffolk County19.9%
- Essex County16.4%
- Norfolk County22.8%
- Bristol County11.1%
- Plymouth County16.2%
- Hampden County10.5%
- Barnstable County16.0%