Recent­ly released data from the Cen­sus Bureau’s 2021 Amer­i­can Com­mu­ni­ty Sur­vey paints a more com­plete pic­ture of the work from home trends upend­ing com­mutes, lifestyles, and neigh­bor­hoods around the Unit­ed States.

While remote work tripled between 2019 and 2021—to near­ly 18 per­cent of all work­ers around the Unit­ed States—the per­cent­ages var­ied wide­ly by city and met­ro­pol­i­tan region, accord­ing to an arti­cle by Tara Bahram­pour for the Wash­ing­ton Post. In Wash­ing­ton, D.C., for instance, 48.3 per­cent of employ­ees worked remote­ly in 2021—the high­est per­cent­age for any city in the country—followed by Seat­tle (46.8 per­cent), San Fran­cis­co (45.6 per­cent), Austin (38.8 per­cent), and Atlanta (38.7 per­cent).

The order shifts when con­sid­er­ing met­ro­pol­i­tan areas. When expand­ing beyond spe­cif­ic city lim­its, San Fran­cis­co (35.1 per­cent) and San Jose (34.8 per­cent) led this list, fol­lowed by D.C. (33.1 per­cent).

William Frey, a demog­ra­ph­er with the Brook­ings Insti­tu­tion, is cit­ed it he arti­cle explain­ing that work from home rates cor­re­lates strong­ly with the num­ber of col­lege-edu­cat­ed work­ers.

A lot more demo­graph­ic data relat­ed to work from home and oth­er trends, such as child­hood pover­ty, are includ­ed in the source arti­cle below.