County profile ยท New Jersey
Working from home in Union County, NJ
14.2% of workers in Union County usually work from home, about 41,324 of 290,048 people. That is 2.6 points below the New Jersey average of 16.8%. It ranks 14 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
14.2%
Rank in NJ
14 of 21
1 = highest share
Remote workers
41,324
Mean commute
30.2 min
Union County compared with New Jersey and the US
| Metric | Union County | New Jersey | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 14.2% | 16.8% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 60.9% | 62.2% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 9.1% | 8.1% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 30.2 min | 30.5 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 13.3% | 16.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 15.4% | 17.7% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 290,048 | 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 alone60.9%
Worked from home14.2%
Public transit9.1%
Counties with a similar rank
- Essex County16.1%
- Camden County15.5%
- Gloucester County14.9%
- Sussex County14.9%
- Ocean County12.5%
- Warren County12.5%
- Cape May County12.1%
- Passaic County11.5%
Largest counties in New Jersey
- Bergen County18.5%
- Middlesex County18.1%
- Essex County16.1%
- Hudson County20.6%
- Monmouth County18.9%
- Ocean County12.5%
- Morris County21.8%
- Camden County15.5%