Bethesda Baptist Church and Cemetery · Photo: A P Wood · CC BY-SA 3.0Union Point has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
The two grades for Union Point are C− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. 216 jobs are based in Union Point for 697 working residents. Home is the office for 3% of workers; Georgia has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Union Point and work: the main findings
A big share show a job far from home
36% 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 ↓
Fewer than half of Union Point workers earn over $40,000 a year
42% of Union Point’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 16% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Few Union Point workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Georgia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 697 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Union Point: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Union Point is better than 17% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Union Point’s grade up (13.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.6%) is left out: Union Point’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Union Point could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Where in the region Union Point works
About 36% 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.
Jobs in Union Point: what the 216 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Union Point, 2013 → 2023: 225 → 216. 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 Point’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Union Point takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Union Point workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 674 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Georgia: 84% 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 a workday changes Union Point
On a workday 654 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 173 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Union Point on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
12% of working residents work in Greensboro
Where Union Point clocks in
12% 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.
Few in Union Point walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Union Point is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.1% across Georgia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 692 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). 9.6% of Union Point households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Union Point’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, Union Point ranks 4,255th of 5,656 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Berkeley Lake GA | 2,034 | $166K | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 199 | Isle of Hope GA | 2,053 | $105K | 1.4% | 1.3% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,253 | Kingston Township MI | 1,462 | $61K | 11.1% | 3.7% | 2% | C− |
| 4,254 | Lower Yoder Township PA | 2,335 | $43K | 14.9% | 6.0% | 5% | C− |
| 4,255 | Union Point GA | 1,856 | $62K | 13.1% | 0.6% | 6% | C− |
| 4,256 | Tieton WA | 1,657 | $60K | 18.0% | 3.2% | 7% | C− |
| 4,257 | Springfield Township OH | 1,947 | $61K | 12.7% | 1.9% | 15% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Union Point, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
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 Point: questions
What is the median household income in Union Point?
$62,011 (±$14,912) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Union Point?
13.1%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Union Point?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Union Point work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greensboro (12%, 8 mi), Athens (7%, 28 mi), Augusta (6%, 60 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Union Point walkable?
Union Point is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Union Point 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 Union Point, from the people who make the trip.
More of Union Point
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.