America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

The number of home-based workers increased across all races and ethnic groups?? especially among high-income workers?? between 2019 and 2021, a time when working from home was encouraged because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A U.S. Census Bureau?report released today?shows that while White home-based workers more than doubled their numbers and remained the largest single group in the home-based workforce, the number of Black or African American, Asian and Hispanic or Latino individuals working from home also grew substantially during this time period.

The report uses 2019 and 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates.

Continue reading?to explore data visualizations and highlights, including:

• White home-based workers increased from 7.2 million to 18.4 million.
• Black home-based workers increased from 0.7 million to 2.6 million.
• Asian home-based workers increased from 0.5 million to 2.6 million.
• Workers reporting Two or More Races increased markedly, from 0.2 million to 2.6 million.
• Hispanic and non-Hispanic home-based workers roughly tripled from 1.1 million to 3.2 million and from 7.9 million to 24.3 million, respectively.

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The report released today,?Home-Based Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic, uses 2019 and 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates to compare teleworking sociodemographic, geographic and occupational patterns the year before and after the pandemic?s onset.

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