County profile ยท New York
Working from home in Albany County, NY
15.2% of workers in Albany County usually work from home, about 23,963 of 157,251 people. That is 0.3 points above the New York average of 14.9%. It ranks 11 of 62 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the New York remote work page.
Work from home
15.2%
Rank in NY
11 of 62
1 = highest share
Remote workers
23,963
Mean commute
21.4 min
Albany County compared with New York and the US
| Metric | Albany County | New York | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 15.2% | 14.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 66.7% | 48.8% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 4.2% | 21.6% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 21.4 min | 32.6 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 14.0% | 13.7% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 16.5% | 16.2% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 157,251 | 9,306,567 | 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 alone66.7%
Worked from home15.2%
Public transit4.2%
Counties with a similar rank
- Saratoga County17.3%
- Monroe County15.6%
- Nassau County15.6%
- Dutchess County15.3%
- Putnam County14.4%
- Schenectady County14.3%
- Rensselaer County14.0%
- Hamilton County13.8%
Largest counties in New York
- Kings County19.1%
- Queens County12.9%
- New York County25.5%
- Suffolk County12.0%
- Nassau County15.6%
- Bronx County8.9%
- Westchester County19.1%
- Erie County12.9%