County profile ยท Minnesota
Working from home in Houston County, MN
13.6% of workers in Houston County usually work from home, about 1,290 of 9,463 people. That is 4.0 points below the Minnesota average of 17.6%. It ranks 15 of 87 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Minnesota remote work page.
Work from home
13.6%
Rank in MN
15 of 87
1 = highest share
Remote workers
1,290
Mean commute
23.8 min
Houston County compared with Minnesota and the US
| Metric | Houston County | Minnesota | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 13.6% | 17.6% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 75.3% | 68.9% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.3% | 1.8% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 23.8 min | 22.7 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 9.4% | 16.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 18.6% | 19.4% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 9,463 | 2,939,889 | 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 alone75.3%
Worked from home13.6%
Public transit0.3%
Counties with a similar rank
- Olmsted County15.4%
- Wright County15.0%
- Grant County14.6%
- Chisago County14.2%
- Lac qui Parle County13.5%
- Sherburne County13.5%
- Nicollet County13.3%
- Crow Wing County13.2%
Largest counties in Minnesota
- Hennepin County25.2%
- Ramsey County20.5%
- Dakota County21.3%
- Anoka County17.2%
- Washington County23.6%
- St. Louis County11.2%
- Olmsted County15.4%
- Scott County19.7%