County profile ยท Minnesota
Working from home in Polk County, MN
5.8% of workers in Polk County usually work from home, about 873 of 15,049 people. That is 11.8 points below the Minnesota average of 17.6%. It ranks 85 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
5.8%
Rank in MN
85 of 87
1 = highest share
Remote workers
873
Mean commute
18.6 min
Polk County compared with Minnesota and the US
| Metric | Polk County | Minnesota | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 5.8% | 17.6% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 78.3% | 68.9% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 1.6% | 1.8% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 18.6 min | 22.7 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 3.9% | 16.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 8.2% | 19.4% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 15,049 | 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 alone78.3%
Worked from home5.8%
Public transit1.6%
Counties with a similar rank
- Waseca County7.0%
- Mahnomen County6.6%
- Nobles County6.4%
- Norman County5.8%
- Lake of the Woods County5.4%
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%