County profile ยท Texas
Working from home in Galveston County, TX
11.7% of workers in Galveston County usually work from home, about 19,724 of 168,011 people. That is 2.7 points below the Texas average of 14.4%. It ranks 45 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
11.7%
Rank in TX
45 of 254
1 = highest share
Remote workers
19,724
Mean commute
27.9 min
Galveston County compared with Texas and the US
| Metric | Galveston County | Texas | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 11.7% | 14.4% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 77.2% | 71.4% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.5% | 0.9% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 27.9 min | 26.7 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 9.9% | 13.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 13.8% | 16.0% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 168,011 | 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 alone77.2%
Worked from home11.7%
Public transit0.5%
Counties with a similar rank
- Ellis County12.4%
- Van Zandt County12.1%
- San Augustine County12.0%
- Wise County12.0%
- Cherokee County11.4%
- Gillespie County11.4%
- Madison County11.3%
- Somervell County11.3%
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%
- Fort Bend County17.7%