Photo: La'Quincy May, Photographer · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Uniontown earn less than those in 98% of U.S. towns
43.7% of residents are in poverty; Alabama has 15.6%. For jobs and income Uniontown is near the bottom of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (C+). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 9% across Alabama.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Uniontown, in brief
A big share show a job far from home
52% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Uniontown workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 26 across Alabama. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 84 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Uniontown makes and builds things
43% of the jobs based in Uniontown are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Uniontown residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 32%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 577 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Uniontown gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Uniontown is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Uniontown’s grade.
Unemployment (42.9%) is left out: Uniontown’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Uniontown stays D−.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Uniontown
About 52% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 37 minutes each way, longer than most of Alabama
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Uniontown workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 304 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Alabama: 88% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Uniontown makes things: 43% of its jobs are in goods
476 jobs are based in Uniontown.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Uniontown, 2013 → 2023: 602 → 476. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Uniontown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 488 residents head out to work, 89 work right here, and 387 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.82 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
7% of working residents work in Marion
Where Uniontown clocks in
7% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Driving is how Uniontown gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 1.7% across Alabama, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 304 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 9.5% of Uniontown households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Uniontown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Uniontown and other U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 382 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 501 | Vance AL | 2,332 | $95K | 7.3% | 1.3% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,617 | Keeler Farm NM | 1,376 | $44K | 50.4% | 27.3% | 1% | D− |
| 5,618 | Aliceville AL | 2,024 | $39K | 36.9% | 13.8% | 17% | D− |
| 5,619 | Uniontown AL | 1,873 | $34K | 43.7% | 42.9% | 15% | D− |
| 5,620 | Marshall AR | 1,320 | $28K | 31.8% | 4.8% | 30% | D− |
| 5,621 | Colquitt GA | 1,937 | $26K | 46.0% | 3.6% | 27% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Uniontown, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Uniontown: questions
What is the median household income in Uniontown?
$33,750 (±$6,916) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Uniontown?
43.7%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Uniontown?
37 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Uniontown work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marion (7%, 16 mi), Tuscaloosa (6%, 54 mi), Montgomery (6%, 72 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Uniontown walkable?
Uniontown is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Uniontown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Uniontown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Uniontown
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.