County profile ยท West Virginia
Working from home in Kanawha County, WV
9.6% of workers in Kanawha County usually work from home, about 7,280 of 75,528 people. That is 0.5 points above the West Virginia average of 9.1%. It ranks 16 of 55 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the West Virginia remote work page.
Work from home
9.6%
Rank in WV
16 of 55
1 = highest share
Remote workers
7,280
Mean commute
21.8 min
Kanawha County compared with West Virginia and the US
| Metric | Kanawha County | West Virginia | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 9.6% | 9.1% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 77.3% | 78.1% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 1.2% | 0.5% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 21.8 min | 26.6 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 8.2% | 7.4% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 11.0% | 10.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 75,528 | 734,007 | 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 home9.6%
Public transit1.2%
Counties with a similar rank
- Doddridge County10.0%
- Wood County9.9%
- Ritchie County9.8%
- Pendleton County9.7%
- Braxton County9.5%
- Hampshire County9.4%
- Mineral County9.3%
- Grant County9.1%
Largest counties in West Virginia
- Berkeley County10.3%
- Monongalia County13.4%
- Cabell County8.7%
- Wood County9.9%
- Jefferson County17.3%
- Harrison County8.3%
- Raleigh County8.4%
- Putnam County10.6%