County profile ยท West Virginia
Working from home in Mercer County, WV
6.6% of workers in Mercer County usually work from home, about 1,530 of 23,191 people. That is 2.5 points below the West Virginia average of 9.1%. It ranks 32 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
6.6%
Rank in WV
32 of 55
1 = highest share
Remote workers
1,530
Mean commute
24.0 min
Mercer County compared with West Virginia and the US
| Metric | Mercer County | West Virginia | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 6.6% | 9.1% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 81.9% | 78.1% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.5% | 0.5% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 24.0 min | 26.6 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 5.8% | 7.4% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 7.4% | 10.9% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 23,191 | 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 alone81.9%
Worked from home6.6%
Public transit0.5%
Counties with a similar rank
- Clay County7.4%
- Brooke County7.3%
- Barbour County6.6%
- Fayette County6.6%
- Taylor County6.5%
- Ohio County6.4%
- Roane County6.1%
- Boone County5.9%
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%