County profile ยท South Dakota
Working from home in Buffalo County, SD
12.3% of workers in Buffalo County usually work from home, about 70 of 568 people. That is 2.6 points above the South Dakota average of 9.7%. It ranks 20 of 66 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the South Dakota remote work page.
Work from home
12.3%
Rank in SD
20 of 66
1 = highest share
Remote workers
70
Mean commute
13.4 min
Buffalo County compared with South Dakota and the US
| Metric | Buffalo County | South Dakota | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 12.3% | 9.7% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 82.2% | 77.0% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.0% | 0.5% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 13.4 min | 17.8 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 15.2% | 8.8% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 8.9% | 10.7% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 568 | 457,555 | 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 alone82.2%
Worked from home12.3%
Public transit0.0%
Counties with a similar rank
- Aurora County13.3%
- Jones County12.7%
- Faulk County12.5%
- Brule County12.4%
- Lincoln County12.3%
- Custer County12.0%
- Day County12.0%
- McPherson County11.6%
Largest counties in South Dakota
- Minnehaha County11.1%
- Pennington County9.6%
- Lincoln County12.3%
- Brown County6.3%
- Brookings County11.1%
- Meade County8.1%
- Codington County5.6%
- Lawrence County6.5%