County profile ยท Texas
Working from home in Fort Bend County, TX
17.7% of workers in Fort Bend County usually work from home, about 75,283 of 424,776 people. That is 3.3 points above the Texas average of 14.4%. It ranks 10 of 254 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Texas remote work page.
Work from home
17.7%
Rank in TX
10 of 254
1 = highest share
Remote workers
75,283
Mean commute
32.7 min
Fort Bend County compared with Texas and the US
| Metric | Fort Bend County | Texas | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 17.7% | 14.4% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 70.4% | 71.4% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.6% | 0.9% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 32.7 min | 26.7 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 17.1% | 13.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 18.4% | 16.0% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 424,776 | 14,280,889 | 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 alone70.4%
Worked from home17.7%
Public transit0.6%
Counties with a similar rank
- Kendall County21.6%
- Comal County18.7%
- Rockwall County18.6%
- Hays County18.1%
- Kinney County16.4%
- McCulloch County16.4%
- Montgomery County15.9%
- Bastrop County15.7%
Largest counties in Texas
- Harris County12.9%
- Dallas County15.7%
- Tarrant County14.8%
- Bexar County14.6%
- Travis County30.2%
- Collin County27.5%
- Denton County23.5%
- El Paso County8.8%