County profile ยท New York
Working from home in Orange County, NY
12.8% of workers in Orange County usually work from home, about 23,438 of 183,632 people. That is 2.1 points below the New York average of 14.9%. It ranks 24 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
12.8%
Rank in NY
24 of 62
1 = highest share
Remote workers
23,438
Mean commute
34.1 min
Orange County compared with New York and the US
| Metric | Orange County | New York | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 12.8% | 14.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 66.7% | 48.8% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 4.7% | 21.6% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 34.1 min | 32.6 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 11.3% | 13.7% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 14.4% | 16.2% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 183,632 | 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 home12.8%
Public transit4.7%
Counties with a similar rank
- Onondaga County13.1%
- Erie County12.9%
- Queens County12.9%
- Greene County12.8%
- Delaware County12.5%
- Suffolk County12.0%
- Otsego County11.7%
- Schoharie County11.1%
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%