County profile ยท North Carolina
Working from home in Rowan County, NC
8.4% of workers in Rowan County usually work from home, about 5,589 of 66,757 people. That is 7.9 points below the North Carolina average of 16.3%. It ranks 56 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
8.4%
Rank in NC
56 of 100
1 = highest share
Remote workers
5,589
Mean commute
26.2 min
Rowan County compared with North Carolina and the US
| Metric | Rowan County | North Carolina | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 8.4% | 16.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 78.0% | 71.5% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.6% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 26.2 min | 25.1 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 6.5% | 14.9% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 10.6% | 17.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 66,757 | 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 alone78.0%
Worked from home8.4%
Public transit0.6%
Counties with a similar rank
- Rutherford County8.6%
- Caswell County8.5%
- Tyrrell County8.5%
- Halifax County8.4%
- Edgecombe County8.3%
- Catawba County8.2%
- Bladen County8.1%
- Clay County8.1%
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%