County profile ยท New York
Working from home in Suffolk County, NY
12.0% of workers in Suffolk County usually work from home, about 92,314 of 766,432 people. That is 2.9 points below the New York average of 14.9%. It ranks 27 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
12.0%
Rank in NY
27 of 62
1 = highest share
Remote workers
92,314
Mean commute
31.1 min
Suffolk County compared with New York and the US
| Metric | Suffolk County | New York | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 12.0% | 14.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 72.1% | 48.8% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 4.8% | 21.6% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 31.1 min | 32.6 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 11.2% | 13.7% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 13.0% | 16.2% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 766,432 | 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 alone72.1%
Worked from home12.0%
Public transit4.8%
Counties with a similar rank
- Queens County12.9%
- Greene County12.8%
- Orange County12.8%
- Delaware County12.5%
- Otsego County11.7%
- Schoharie County11.1%
- Oneida County10.8%
- Richmond County10.7%
Largest counties in New York
- Kings County19.1%
- Queens County12.9%
- New York County25.5%
- Nassau County15.6%
- Bronx County8.9%
- Westchester County19.1%
- Erie County12.9%
- Monroe County15.6%