In spite of so many return-to-office demands, it's clear that remote work is here to stay for a large part of the white collar workforce. However, remote workers are not distributed equally over the population. In fact, the gap between different cities is vast.
The team at Smart Asset looked at cities with populations over 100,000 as per 2022 U.S. Census Bureau data, and surveyed the field to find the percentages of remote workers for each city. This is useful info, but this arbitrary threshold leaves out entire states like Delaware — home to a total of zero cities with a population of that size.
Key Finding:
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Cary, North Carolina tops the chart with 41.4 percent of their workforce at home. This city is the home of SAS Institute and many other research-adjacent jobs due to the North Carolina Research Triangle. For the other 58.6 percent, the mean travel time to work is just 22.2 minutes.
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Despite only having 16.1 percent of its residents working remotely, New York City has the largest number of remote workers in the US: 634,778. It certainly doesn't help that it takes around 40.7 minutes on average to reach work otherwise.
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Beaumont, Texas ranks at the very bottom with just 3.7 percent of workers living the remote lifestyle. Commuting isn't terrible though since it takes just 23.1 minutes on average.
Via Smart Asset.
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