County profile ยท New Jersey
Working from home in Mercer County, NJ
19.5% of workers in Mercer County usually work from home, about 35,981 of 184,365 people. That is 2.7 points above the New Jersey average of 16.8%. It ranks 5 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
19.5%
Rank in NJ
5 of 21
1 = highest share
Remote workers
35,981
Mean commute
27.1 min
Mercer County compared with New Jersey and the US
| Metric | Mercer County | New Jersey | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 19.5% | 16.8% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 60.2% | 62.2% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 4.6% | 8.1% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 27.1 min | 30.5 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 19.2% | 16.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 19.9% | 17.7% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 184,365 | 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 alone60.2%
Worked from home19.5%
Public transit4.6%
Counties with a similar rank
- Somerset County22.7%
- Hunterdon County21.8%
- Morris County21.8%
- Hudson County20.6%
- Monmouth County18.9%
- Bergen County18.5%
- Middlesex County18.1%
- Burlington County16.7%
Largest counties in New Jersey
- Bergen County18.5%
- Middlesex County18.1%
- Essex County16.1%
- Hudson County20.6%
- Monmouth County18.9%
- Union County14.2%
- Ocean County12.5%
- Morris County21.8%