County profile ยท New York
Working from home in Erie County, NY
12.9% of workers in Erie County usually work from home, about 58,707 of 453,372 people. That is 2.0 points below the New York average of 14.9%. It ranks 22 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
12.9%
Rank in NY
22 of 62
1 = highest share
Remote workers
58,707
Mean commute
21.3 min
Erie County compared with New York and the US
| Metric | Erie County | New York | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 12.9% | 14.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 72.4% | 48.8% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 2.8% | 21.6% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 21.3 min | 32.6 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 12.0% | 13.7% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 14.0% | 16.2% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 453,372 | 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 alone72.4%
Worked from home12.9%
Public transit2.8%
Counties with a similar rank
- Yates County13.4%
- Essex County13.2%
- Sullivan County13.2%
- Onondaga County13.1%
- Queens County12.9%
- Greene County12.8%
- Orange County12.8%
- Delaware County12.5%
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%
- Monroe County15.6%