Colorado ranks as the 10th best state for working from home, according to a report from a personal finance website.

WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia using 12 metrics to assess how feasible it is to work from home in terms of cost, comfort and safety.

By one estimate, 12.7 percent of full-time employees work from home, while 28.2 percent work under a hybrid schedule in dividing their time between the workplace and home. While more businesses embrace work from home, people might not always have the best environment for doing so, according to the report.

Colorado ranked first for the median square footage per average number of persons in a household and second for the share of population working from home. The state ranked 14th for household internet access, 26th for internet cost and 29th for average retail price of electricity.

Delaware ranked as the best state for working from home,  followed by Utah, Maryland, Connecticut and New Jersey. The District of Columbia, Georgia, Arizona and Washington rounded out the top 10. Alaska ranked as the worst state for working from home. North Dakota, Montana, Arkansas and Mississippi rounded out the bottom five.

“The demand to work from home should continue to be strong throughout the rest of 2023 and increase into the future. Employers were forced to allow employees to work from anywhere during the pandemic, and that experiment largely proved successful,” said Joseph Broschak, an associate professor at the University of Arizona.

The full WalletHub report is available online at

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-for-working-from-home/72801.