County profile ยท New York
Working from home in Essex County, NY
13.2% of workers in Essex County usually work from home, about 2,200 of 16,722 people. That is 1.7 points below the New York average of 14.9%. It ranks 19 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
13.2%
Rank in NY
19 of 62
1 = highest share
Remote workers
2,200
Mean commute
22.7 min
Essex County compared with New York and the US
| Metric | Essex County | New York | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 13.2% | 14.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 70.3% | 48.8% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.8% | 21.6% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 22.7 min | 32.6 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 12.5% | 13.7% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 13.9% | 16.2% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 16,722 | 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 alone70.3%
Worked from home13.2%
Public transit0.8%
Counties with a similar rank
- Hamilton County13.8%
- Ontario County13.6%
- Rockland County13.4%
- Yates County13.4%
- Sullivan County13.2%
- Onondaga County13.1%
- Erie County12.9%
- Queens County12.9%
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%