County profile ยท Wisconsin
Working from home in Polk County, WI
11.8% of workers in Polk County usually work from home, about 2,578 of 21,901 people. That is 1.3 points below the Wisconsin average of 13.1%. It ranks 26 of 72 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the Wisconsin remote work page.
Work from home
11.8%
Rank in WI
26 of 72
1 = highest share
Remote workers
2,578
Mean commute
29.8 min
Polk County compared with Wisconsin and the US
| Metric | Polk County | Wisconsin | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 11.8% | 13.1% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 77.3% | 74.4% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.0% | 1.1% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 29.8 min | 22.2 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 9.5% | 11.6% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 14.3% | 14.7% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 21,901 | 2,984,569 | 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 home11.8%
Public transit0.0%
Counties with a similar rank
- Clark County12.4%
- Menominee County12.3%
- Green County11.9%
- Burnett County11.8%
- Chippewa County11.7%
- La Crosse County11.6%
- Lincoln County11.6%
- Outagamie County11.5%
Largest counties in Wisconsin
- Milwaukee County14.4%
- Dane County20.0%
- Waukesha County16.8%
- Brown County12.6%
- Outagamie County11.5%
- Racine County9.9%
- Winnebago County11.5%
- Kenosha County10.7%