County profile ยท North Carolina
Working from home in Forsyth County, NC
14.5% of workers in Forsyth County usually work from home, about 26,230 of 181,037 people. That is 1.8 points below the North Carolina average of 16.3%. It ranks 14 of 100 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the North Carolina remote work page.
Work from home
14.5%
Rank in NC
14 of 100
1 = highest share
Remote workers
26,230
Mean commute
22.7 min
Forsyth County compared with North Carolina and the US
| Metric | Forsyth County | North Carolina | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 14.5% | 16.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 73.7% | 71.5% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.7% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 22.7 min | 25.1 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 13.6% | 14.9% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 15.4% | 17.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 181,037 | 5,084,515 | 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 alone73.7%
Worked from home14.5%
Public transit0.7%
Counties with a similar rank
- Polk County15.8%
- Brunswick County14.7%
- Johnston County14.7%
- Iredell County14.6%
- Lincoln County14.3%
- Dare County14.2%
- Granville County13.9%
- Guilford County13.9%
Largest counties in North Carolina
- Wake County29.1%
- Mecklenburg County28.5%
- Guilford County13.9%
- Durham County22.9%
- Cumberland County7.7%
- Buncombe County17.6%
- Union County19.5%
- New Hanover County19.4%