County profile ยท Tennessee
Working from home in Knox County, TN
14.4% of workers in Knox County usually work from home, about 35,658 of 248,407 people. That is 1.5 points above the Tennessee average of 12.9%. It ranks 7 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
14.4%
Rank in TN
7 of 95
1 = highest share
Remote workers
35,658
Mean commute
22.2 min
Knox County compared with Tennessee and the US
| Metric | Knox County | Tennessee | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 14.4% | 12.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 75.8% | 75.8% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.5% | 0.4% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 22.2 min | 25.7 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 13.0% | 11.4% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 15.9% | 14.5% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 248,407 | 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 alone75.8%
Worked from home14.4%
Public transit0.5%
Counties with a similar rank
- Wilson County16.8%
- Sumner County16.2%
- Sequatchie County15.9%
- Rutherford County15.0%
- Hamilton County14.3%
- Marshall County14.3%
- Maury County14.1%
- Cheatham County13.7%
Largest counties in Tennessee
- Shelby County10.8%
- Davidson County20.3%
- Rutherford County15.0%
- Hamilton County14.3%
- Williamson County28.3%
- Montgomery County8.5%
- Sumner County16.2%
- Wilson County16.8%