County profile ยท Mississippi
Working from home in Forrest County, MS
4.0% of workers in Forrest County usually work from home, about 1,440 of 35,711 people. That is 1.9 points below the Mississippi average of 5.9%. It ranks 39 of 82 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Mississippi remote work page.
Work from home
4.0%
Rank in MS
39 of 82
1 = highest share
Remote workers
1,440
Mean commute
21.2 min
Forrest County compared with Mississippi and the US
| Metric | Forrest County | Mississippi | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 4.0% | 5.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 80.6% | 81.8% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.3% | 0.3% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 21.2 min | 25.6 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 3.7% | 5.1% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 4.4% | 6.7% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 35,711 | 1,243,121 | 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 alone80.6%
Worked from home4.0%
Public transit0.3%
Counties with a similar rank
- Yazoo County4.5%
- Jones County4.4%
- Chickasaw County4.2%
- Calhoun County4.0%
- Wayne County4.0%
- Scott County3.9%
- Smith County3.8%
- Copiah County3.7%
Largest counties in Mississippi
- DeSoto County8.2%
- Hinds County8.6%
- Harrison County7.1%
- Rankin County7.1%
- Jackson County7.2%
- Madison County9.6%
- Lee County5.4%
- Lamar County5.4%