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Working from home in Rensselaer County, NY
14.0% of workers in Rensselaer County usually work from home, about 10,915 of 77,780 people. That is 0.9 points below the New York average of 14.9%. It ranks 14 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
14.0%
Rank in NY
14 of 62
1 = highest share
Remote workers
10,915
Mean commute
24.0 min
Rensselaer County compared with New York and the US
| Metric | Rensselaer County | New York | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 14.0% | 14.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 72.2% | 48.8% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 2.4% | 21.6% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 24.0 min | 32.6 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 11.9% | 13.7% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 16.3% | 16.2% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 77,780 | 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 alone72.2%
Worked from home14.0%
Public transit2.4%
Counties with a similar rank
- Dutchess County15.3%
- Albany County15.2%
- Putnam County14.4%
- Schenectady County14.3%
- Hamilton County13.8%
- Ontario County13.6%
- Rockland County13.4%
- Yates County13.4%
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%