County profile ยท Nebraska
Working from home in Polk County, NE
11.7% of workers in Polk County usually work from home, about 326 of 2,777 people. That is 0.7 points above the Nebraska average of 11.0%. It ranks 15 of 93 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Nebraska remote work page.
Work from home
11.7%
Rank in NE
15 of 93
1 = highest share
Remote workers
326
Mean commute
20.8 min
Polk County compared with Nebraska and the US
| Metric | Polk County | Nebraska | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 11.7% | 11.0% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 75.5% | 76.1% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.1% | 0.5% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 20.8 min | 19.2 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 11.8% | 9.9% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 11.7% | 12.4% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 2,777 | 1,013,728 | 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 alone75.5%
Worked from home11.7%
Public transit0.1%
Counties with a similar rank
- Cass County12.3%
- Logan County12.3%
- Burt County12.0%
- Wheeler County11.8%
- Thomas County11.7%
- Lancaster County11.6%
- Cheyenne County11.3%
- Nuckolls County10.9%
Largest counties in Nebraska
- Douglas County16.1%
- Lancaster County11.6%
- Sarpy County13.5%
- Hall County4.4%
- Buffalo County4.7%
- Dodge County4.1%
- Platte County5.3%
- Madison County5.6%