County profile ยท New Jersey
Working from home in Salem County, NJ
9.5% of workers in Salem County usually work from home, about 2,737 of 28,796 people. That is 7.3 points below the New Jersey average of 16.8%. It ranks 19 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
9.5%
Rank in NJ
19 of 21
1 = highest share
Remote workers
2,737
Mean commute
26.5 min
Salem County compared with New Jersey and the US
| Metric | Salem County | New Jersey | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 9.5% | 16.8% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 80.2% | 62.2% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.7% | 8.1% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 26.5 min | 30.5 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 7.2% | 16.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 11.8% | 17.7% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 28,796 | 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 alone80.2%
Worked from home9.5%
Public transit0.7%
Counties with a similar rank
- Ocean County12.5%
- Warren County12.5%
- Cape May County12.1%
- Passaic County11.5%
- Atlantic County9.1%
- Cumberland County5.4%
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%