County profile ยท North Carolina
Working from home in Orange County, NC
26.8% of workers in Orange County usually work from home, about 19,506 of 72,751 people. That is 10.5 points above the North Carolina average of 16.3%. It ranks 3 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
26.8%
Rank in NC
3 of 100
1 = highest share
Remote workers
19,506
Mean commute
23.6 min
Orange County compared with North Carolina and the US
| Metric | Orange County | North Carolina | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 26.8% | 16.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 55.3% | 71.5% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 4.2% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 23.6 min | 25.1 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 23.7% | 14.9% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 29.9% | 17.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 72,751 | 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 alone55.3%
Worked from home26.8%
Public transit4.2%
Counties with a similar rank
- Wake County29.1%
- Mecklenburg County28.5%
- Durham County22.9%
- Chatham County22.5%
- Union County19.5%
- New Hanover County19.4%
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%