County profile ยท North Carolina
Working from home in Yancey County, NC
11.7% of workers in Yancey County usually work from home, about 905 of 7,766 people. That is 4.6 points below the North Carolina average of 16.3%. It ranks 28 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
11.7%
Rank in NC
28 of 100
1 = highest share
Remote workers
905
Mean commute
27.1 min
Yancey County compared with North Carolina and the US
| Metric | Yancey County | North Carolina | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 11.7% | 16.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 78.6% | 71.5% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.1% | 0.7% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 27.1 min | 25.1 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 8.1% | 14.9% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 15.5% | 17.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 7,766 | 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 alone78.6%
Worked from home11.7%
Public transit0.1%
Counties with a similar rank
- Transylvania County12.5%
- Gaston County12.4%
- Moore County12.2%
- Pitt County11.9%
- Alamance County11.3%
- Camden County11.2%
- Pamlico County11.1%
- Warren County11.0%
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%