County profile ยท Tennessee
Working from home in Shelby County, TN
10.8% of workers in Shelby County usually work from home, about 45,387 of 418,661 people. That is 2.1 points below the Tennessee average of 12.9%. It ranks 22 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
10.8%
Rank in TN
22 of 95
1 = highest share
Remote workers
45,387
Mean commute
22.3 min
Shelby County compared with Tennessee and the US
| Metric | Shelby County | Tennessee | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 10.8% | 12.9% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 76.6% | 75.8% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.5% | 0.4% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 22.3 min | 25.7 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 9.8% | 11.4% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 11.9% | 14.5% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 418,661 | 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 alone76.6%
Worked from home10.8%
Public transit0.5%
Counties with a similar rank
- Washington County11.9%
- Dickson County11.5%
- Union County11.5%
- Hawkins County11.3%
- Tipton County10.7%
- Lawrence County10.6%
- Sullivan County10.6%
- Bedford County10.5%
Largest counties in Tennessee
- Davidson County20.3%
- Knox County14.4%
- Rutherford County15.0%
- Hamilton County14.3%
- Williamson County28.3%
- Montgomery County8.5%
- Sumner County16.2%
- Wilson County16.8%