County profile ยท Wisconsin
Working from home in Portage County, WI
12.6% of workers in Portage County usually work from home, about 4,643 of 36,988 people. That is 0.5 points below the Wisconsin average of 13.1%. It ranks 17 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
12.6%
Rank in WI
17 of 72
1 = highest share
Remote workers
4,643
Mean commute
19.5 min
Portage County compared with Wisconsin and the US
| Metric | Portage County | Wisconsin | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 12.6% | 13.1% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 74.1% | 74.4% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.2% | 1.1% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 19.5 min | 22.2 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 10.5% | 11.6% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 14.9% | 14.7% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 36,988 | 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 alone74.1%
Worked from home12.6%
Public transit0.2%
Counties with a similar rank
- Sawyer County12.7%
- Vernon County12.7%
- Brown County12.6%
- Lafayette County12.6%
- Washburn County12.6%
- Columbia County12.5%
- Oconto County12.5%
- Clark County12.4%
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%