County profile ยท Tennessee
Working from home in Houston County, TN
5.2% of workers in Houston County usually work from home, about 175 of 3,397 people. That is 7.7 points below the Tennessee average of 12.9%. It ranks 87 of 95 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Tennessee remote work page.
Work from home
5.2%
Rank in TN
87 of 95
1 = highest share
Remote workers
175
Mean commute
37.6 min
Houston County compared with Tennessee and the US
| Metric | Houston County | Tennessee | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 5.2% | 12.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 80.6% | 75.8% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.2% | 0.4% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 37.6 min | 25.7 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 3.1% | 11.4% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 7.5% | 14.5% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 3,397 | 3,314,309 | 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 alone80.6%
Worked from home5.2%
Public transit0.2%
Counties with a similar rank
- Decatur County5.5%
- Haywood County5.5%
- Hamblen County5.4%
- Gibson County5.3%
- Dyer County4.9%
- Hancock County4.3%
- Bledsoe County4.1%
- Cocke County3.9%
Largest counties in Tennessee
- Shelby County10.8%
- Davidson County20.3%
- Knox County14.4%
- Rutherford County15.0%
- Hamilton County14.3%
- Williamson County28.3%
- Montgomery County8.5%
- Sumner County16.2%