Working from home use to be a rarity. Now, three years after the COVID pandemic first began, working from home has become common.

Statistics from Zippia.com show as of 2022, 26% of U.S. employees work remotely and 40% of those believe they’ve been more productive working at home as opposed to an office. By 2025, there are expected to be some 36.2 million American employees working remotely.

Geography plays a role in where people are more likely to work from home, as Stacker found in a recent analysis of the places in Alabama where the greatest number of people work from home.

The analysis used Census Bureau data from Click Up in determining the work-from-home hot spots in each state. In Alabama those were:

8. Houston County

• People working from home within county: 5.9% of workers
• Total number of workers within county (age 16+): 45,396

7. Marshall County

• People working from home within county: 7.5% of workers
• Total number of workers within county (age 16+): 40,929

6. Tuscaloosa County

• People working from home within county: 7.5% of workers
• Total number of workers within county (age 16+): 103,880

5. Montgomery County

• People working from home within county: 7.7% of workers
• Total number of workers within county (age 16+): 98,093

4. Mobile County

• People working from home within county: 7.9% of workers
• Total number of workers within county (age 16+): 173,818

3. Jefferson County

• People working from home within county: 13.3% of workers
• Total number of workers within county (age 16+): 300,339

2. Shelby County

• People working from home within county: 17.8% of workers
• Total number of workers within county (age 16+): 116,235

1. Madison County

• People working from home within county: 19.2% of workers
• Total number of workers within county (age 16+): 193,623