County profile ยท New Jersey
Working from home in Essex County, NJ
16.1% of workers in Essex County usually work from home, about 64,603 of 401,962 people. That is 0.7 points below the New Jersey average of 16.8%. It ranks 10 of 21 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the New Jersey remote work page.
Work from home
16.1%
Rank in NJ
10 of 21
1 = highest share
Remote workers
64,603
Mean commute
33.6 min
Essex County compared with New Jersey and the US
| Metric | Essex County | New Jersey | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 16.1% | 16.8% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 52.7% | 62.2% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 15.8% | 8.1% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 33.6 min | 30.5 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 15.0% | 16.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 17.2% | 17.7% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 401,962 | 4,582,367 | 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 alone52.7%
Worked from home16.1%
Public transit15.8%
Counties with a similar rank
- Monmouth County18.9%
- Bergen County18.5%
- Middlesex County18.1%
- Burlington County16.7%
- Camden County15.5%
- Gloucester County14.9%
- Sussex County14.9%
- Union County14.2%
Largest counties in New Jersey
- Bergen County18.5%
- Middlesex County18.1%
- Hudson County20.6%
- Monmouth County18.9%
- Union County14.2%
- Ocean County12.5%
- Morris County21.8%
- Camden County15.5%