County profile ยท North Carolina
Working from home in Macon County, NC
9.4% of workers in Macon County usually work from home, about 1,536 of 16,285 people. That is 6.9 points below the North Carolina average of 16.3%. It ranks 42 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
9.4%
Rank in NC
42 of 100
1 = highest share
Remote workers
1,536
Mean commute
22.6 min
Macon County compared with North Carolina and the US
| Metric | Macon County | North Carolina | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 9.4% | 16.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 80.3% | 71.5% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.1% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 22.6 min | 25.1 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 10.8% | 14.9% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 7.9% | 17.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 16,285 | 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 alone80.3%
Worked from home9.4%
Public transit0.1%
Counties with a similar rank
- Watauga County10.4%
- Pasquotank County9.9%
- Stanly County9.8%
- Davidson County9.7%
- Avery County9.2%
- Haywood County9.2%
- Wilkes County9.1%
- Ashe County9.0%
Largest counties in North Carolina
- Wake County29.1%
- Mecklenburg County28.5%
- Guilford County13.9%
- Forsyth County14.5%
- Durham County22.9%
- Cumberland County7.7%
- Buncombe County17.6%
- Union County19.5%