County profile ยท North Carolina
Working from home in Wilkes County, NC
9.1% of workers in Wilkes County usually work from home, about 2,566 of 28,302 people. That is 7.2 points below the North Carolina average of 16.3%. It ranks 45 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
9.1%
Rank in NC
45 of 100
1 = highest share
Remote workers
2,566
Mean commute
25.9 min
Wilkes County compared with North Carolina and the US
| Metric | Wilkes County | North Carolina | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 9.1% | 16.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 79.2% | 71.5% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.2% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 25.9 min | 25.1 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 7.9% | 14.9% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 10.5% | 17.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 28,302 | 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 alone79.2%
Worked from home9.1%
Public transit0.2%
Counties with a similar rank
- Davidson County9.7%
- Macon County9.4%
- Avery County9.2%
- Haywood County9.2%
- Ashe County9.0%
- Currituck County9.0%
- Anson County8.9%
- Beaufort County8.9%
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%