County profile ยท New York
Working from home in New York County, NY
25.5% of workers in New York County usually work from home, about 219,590 of 860,693 people. That is 10.6 points above the New York average of 14.9%. It ranks 1 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
25.5%
Rank in NY
1 of 62
1 = highest share
Remote workers
219,590
Mean commute
31.2 min
New York County compared with New York and the US
| Metric | New York County | New York | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 25.5% | 14.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 5.6% | 48.8% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 43.8% | 21.6% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 31.2 min | 32.6 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 25.0% | 13.7% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 26.1% | 16.2% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 860,693 | 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 alone5.6%
Worked from home25.5%
Public transit43.8%
Counties with a similar rank
- Tompkins County20.0%
- Kings County19.1%
- Westchester County19.1%
- Ulster County17.6%
Largest counties in New York
- Kings County19.1%
- Queens County12.9%
- Suffolk County12.0%
- Nassau County15.6%
- Bronx County8.9%
- Westchester County19.1%
- Erie County12.9%
- Monroe County15.6%