County profile ยท West Virginia
Working from home in McDowell County, WV
4.5% of workers in McDowell County usually work from home, about 165 of 3,697 people. That is 4.6 points below the West Virginia average of 9.1%. It ranks 46 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
4.5%
Rank in WV
46 of 55
1 = highest share
Remote workers
165
Mean commute
36.0 min
McDowell County compared with West Virginia and the US
| Metric | McDowell County | West Virginia | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 4.5% | 9.1% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 83.2% | 78.1% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.5% | 0.5% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 36.0 min | 26.6 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 1.1% | 7.4% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 7.7% | 10.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 3,697 | 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 alone83.2%
Worked from home4.5%
Public transit0.5%
Counties with a similar rank
- Monroe County5.4%
- Marshall County5.3%
- Logan County5.0%
- Nicholas County4.8%
- Mason County4.5%
- Wayne County4.4%
- Summers County4.2%
- Wetzel County4.0%
Largest counties in West Virginia
- Kanawha County9.6%
- Berkeley County10.3%
- Monongalia County13.4%
- Cabell County8.7%
- Wood County9.9%
- Jefferson County17.3%
- Harrison County8.3%
- Raleigh County8.4%