County profile ยท North Carolina
Working from home in Surry County, NC
6.7% of workers in Surry County usually work from home, about 2,096 of 31,241 people. That is 9.6 points below the North Carolina average of 16.3%. It ranks 76 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
6.7%
Rank in NC
76 of 100
1 = highest share
Remote workers
2,096
Mean commute
24.3 min
Surry County compared with North Carolina and the US
| Metric | Surry County | North Carolina | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 6.7% | 16.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 78.1% | 71.5% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.1% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 24.3 min | 25.1 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 5.7% | 14.9% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 7.9% | 17.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 31,241 | 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 alone78.1%
Worked from home6.7%
Public transit0.1%
Counties with a similar rank
- Rockingham County7.0%
- Cleveland County6.8%
- Duplin County6.7%
- Lee County6.7%
- Alexander County6.1%
- McDowell County6.0%
- Swain County6.0%
- Montgomery County5.9%
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%