County profile ยท Texas
Working from home in Polk County, TX
7.4% of workers in Polk County usually work from home, about 1,398 of 18,920 people. That is 7.0 points below the Texas average of 14.4%. It ranks 122 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
7.4%
Rank in TX
122 of 254
1 = highest share
Remote workers
1,398
Mean commute
29.8 min
Polk County compared with Texas and the US
| Metric | Polk County | Texas | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 7.4% | 14.4% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 77.3% | 71.4% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.1% | 0.9% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 29.8 min | 26.7 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 4.6% | 13.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 10.7% | 16.0% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 18,920 | 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 alone77.3%
Worked from home7.4%
Public transit0.1%
Counties with a similar rank
- San Jacinto County7.6%
- Randall County7.5%
- Walker County7.5%
- Kent County7.4%
- Throckmorton County7.4%
- Lubbock County7.3%
- Clay County7.2%
- Cooke County7.2%
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%