County profile ยท Texas
Working from home in Harris County, TX
12.9% of workers in Harris County usually work from home, about 296,070 of 2,295,484 people. That is 1.5 points below the Texas average of 14.4%. It ranks 36 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
12.9%
Rank in TX
36 of 254
1 = highest share
Remote workers
296,070
Mean commute
29.0 min
Harris County compared with Texas and the US
| Metric | Harris County | Texas | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 12.9% | 14.4% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 70.3% | 71.4% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 2.0% | 0.9% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 29.0 min | 26.7 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 11.1% | 13.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 15.1% | 16.0% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 2,295,484 | 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 alone70.3%
Worked from home12.9%
Public transit2.0%
Counties with a similar rank
- Cottle County13.7%
- Fannin County13.5%
- Burnet County13.4%
- Parker County13.3%
- Grayson County12.6%
- Lee County12.6%
- Medina County12.6%
- Kaufman County12.5%
Largest counties in Texas
- Dallas County15.7%
- Tarrant County14.8%
- Bexar County14.6%
- Travis County30.2%
- Collin County27.5%
- Denton County23.5%
- Fort Bend County17.7%
- El Paso County8.8%