County profile ยท Virginia
Working from home in Newport News city, VA
10.2% of workers in Newport News city usually work from home, about 9,258 of 90,827 people. That is 8.1 points below the Virginia average of 18.3%. It ranks 79 of 133 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Virginia remote work page.
Work from home
10.2%
Rank in VA
79 of 133
1 = highest share
Remote workers
9,258
Mean commute
23.1 min
Newport News city compared with Virginia and the US
| Metric | Newport News city | Virginia | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 10.2% | 18.3% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 74.0% | 67.6% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 1.6% | 2.3% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 23.1 min | 27.3 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 8.4% | 16.9% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 12.2% | 19.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 90,827 | 4,327,663 | 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 alone74.0%
Worked from home10.2%
Public transit1.6%
Counties with a similar rank
- Bland County10.3%
- Rockbridge County10.3%
- Waynesboro city10.3%
- Prince George County10.2%
- Norfolk city10.2%
- Amherst County10.1%
- Northampton County10.1%
- Martinsville city10.0%
Largest counties in Virginia
- Fairfax County28.7%
- Prince William County19.1%
- Virginia Beach city14.3%
- Loudoun County31.2%
- Chesterfield County19.5%
- Henrico County22.3%
- Arlington County35.3%
- Norfolk city10.2%