County profile ยท North Carolina
Working from home in Mecklenburg County, NC
28.5% of workers in Mecklenburg County usually work from home, about 176,408 of 619,000 people. That is 12.2 points above the North Carolina average of 16.3%. It ranks 2 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
28.5%
Rank in NC
2 of 100
1 = highest share
Remote workers
176,408
Mean commute
25.1 min
Mecklenburg County compared with North Carolina and the US
| Metric | Mecklenburg County | North Carolina | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 28.5% | 16.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 58.6% | 71.5% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 1.7% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 25.1 min | 25.1 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 27.4% | 14.9% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 29.7% | 17.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 619,000 | 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 alone58.6%
Worked from home28.5%
Public transit1.7%
Counties with a similar rank
- Wake County29.1%
- Orange County26.8%
- Durham County22.9%
- Chatham County22.5%
- Union County19.5%
Largest counties in North Carolina
- Wake County29.1%
- Guilford County13.9%
- Forsyth County14.5%
- Durham County22.9%
- Cumberland County7.7%
- Buncombe County17.6%
- Union County19.5%
- New Hanover County19.4%