Zoomtowns: These cities are prime real estate for remote workers

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Over the past year, alleged Zoomtowns person boomed arsenic immoderate distant workers, nary longer tethered to a circumstantial metropolis oregon regular commute, deed the unfastened road. Earlier this month, LinkedIn published a station highlighting some tiny and ample U.S. cities that are location to a disproportionate stock of remote occupation applicants.

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Zoomtowns roar amid enactment from home

At the onset of COVID-19, companies astir the globe switched to distant enactment virtually overnight. On abbreviated notice, the nontraditional enactment statement chiefly utilized arsenic an intermittent perk for on-site employees became the presumption quo, and immoderate companies person made semipermanent commitments to distant work.

For perspective, telecommuter opportunities represented astir one-third of each U.S. occupation postings connected LinkedIn past month, according to the company, compared to 9.8% 1 twelvemonth anterior and 2.8% earlier the onset of COVID-19 successful January 2020. Nationally, 21.3% of applications connected LinkedIn were distant occupation applications betwixt August 2020 and August 2021, per the post. While this represents a ample chunk of each opportunities, these off-site positions are gobbling up a markedly larger stock among workers successful definite cities.

A LinkedIn graphic breaks down the database of tiny and ample cities "where U.S. occupation seekers are astir apt to use for distant work."

10 smaller U.S. cities for distant work

From August 2020 to August 2021, the percent of distant occupation applications successful Bend, Oregon was 41.8%, which is astir treble the nationalist average, making the scenic Beaver State upland municipality the apical tiny metropolis listed. The different 5 smaller cities see Asheville, North Carolina (38.7%), Wilmington, Delaware (35.9%), Johnson City, Tennessee (35.2%) and Eugene, Oregon (34.9%).

Sarasota-North Port, Florida (34.6%), Pensacola, Florida  (34.5%), Portland, Maine (33.9%), Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (33.9%). and Roanoke, Virginia (32.4%) implicit the apical 10 smaller cities.

Specific distant Asheville occupation categories that are "working retired for residents" see positions successful aesculapian billing, recruiting, information investigation and online instruction, according to the post, with Wilmington including "many" of these aforesaid positions, arsenic good arsenic ineligible work, contented selling and IT/technical enactment roles.

10 larger U.S. metros for distant work

While smaller cities are fashionable locations for distant workers, galore professionals inactive look to favour bustling metropolitan areas. Among larger cities, Cape Coral, Florida (33.1%), Charleston, South Carolina (31.6%) and the Tampa Bay country (29.6%), Florida circular retired the apical three, according to LinkedIn, followed by Jacksonville, Florida (29.4%), Orlando, and Hampton Roads, Virginia (28.1%), successful order.

With distant applications representing 28.1% of the full applications, Omaha, Nebraska ranked arsenic the seventh ample metro country for professionals applying for telecommuter positions, followed by Kentucky's Derby City (Louisville, Kentucky) (26.9%), Las Vegas, Nevada (26.4%), and Salt Lake City, Utah (26.3%).

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Methodology notes

The study is based connected LinkedIn's Economic Graph squad information and focuses connected cities wherever U.S. "job seekers are astir apt to use for distant work" with a 100,000 colonisation cutoff distinguishing betwixt larger and smaller cities, according to LinkedIn. The squad utilized minimum occupation exertion thresholds (5,000 distant applications for smaller cities and 100,000 for larger cities).

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