Union Park has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
1,125 jobs are based in Union Park for 4,721 working residents. The two grades for Union Park are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Only 2% work in Union Park itself; outside it, Orlando draws the most (28%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Union Park, in brief
Union Park is a place people come home to
There are 1,125 jobs based in Union Park, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Union Park has about 7,000 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
28% of Union Park works in Orlando
1,328 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Orlando, 8.3 miles away. That’s 14 times as many as work in Union Park itself. The commute map ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
32% of the jobs based in Union Park are held by workers 29 or younger, against 27% of Union Park’s own working residents. 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.
Inside Union Park’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Union Park is better than 59% of U.S. towns, #266 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Union Park’s grade up (ahead of 86% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.8%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Union Park could be anywhere from C to A−.
Who leaves Union Park for work, and who comes in
On a workday 4,615 residents head out to work, 106 work right here, and 1,019 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,000 people are in Union Park on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Union Park to work: where people go
Where Union Park clocks in
28% 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.
What Union Park’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Union Park, 2013 → 2023: 1,477 → 1,125. 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 Union Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Union Park: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Union Park workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,113 commuters (the 16% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% 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.
How far Union Park’s workers travel
About 17% 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.
Union Park is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Union Park is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns, #504 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,093 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 44% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.9% of Union Park households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Union Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Union Park is 1,471st among 2,878 U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 174 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 343 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,469 | Bermuda Dunes CA | 7,971 | $91K | 8.5% | 5.5% | 5% | B |
| 1,470 | Hillview KY | 9,020 | $68K | 11.2% | 3.8% | 4% | B |
| 1,471 | Union Park FL | 10,615 | $70K | 13.8% | 3.4% | 2% | B |
| 1,472 | Boon Township IN | 13,898 | $78K | 9.2% | 3.6% | 18% | B |
| 1,473 | Eden Isle LA | 7,683 | $78K | 4.8% | 7.3% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Union Park, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Union Park and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Alafaya (3%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Union Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Park | – | B | C+ | 26 min | $70,000 |
| Alafaya | 3% | B+ | B− | 31 min | $100,950 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Union Park’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Union Park: questions
What is the median household income in Union Park?
$70,000 (±$20,449) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Union Park?
13.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Union Park?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Union Park work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (28%, 8 mi), University (5%, 3 mi), Alafaya (3%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Union Park walkable?
Union Park is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Union Park without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Union Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Union Park
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.