A job hub: Union Hill has 2.8 jobs per working resident, and 124 people come in to work
3% of workers work from home, where Illinois as a whole has 16%. Employers in Union Hill report 124 jobs, against 44 working residents. Hardly any stay in Union Hill for work; outside it, Chicago is the main destination (16%, 56 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Union Hill, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 44 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 130 people are in Union Hill on a workday afternoon, 163% more 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.
Where the people who work in Union Hill live
Where Union Hill clocks in
16% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
Making and building: 82% of jobs based in Union Hill
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Union Hill, 2013 → 2023: 128 → 124. 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 Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Union Hill: about 27 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Union Hill workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 33 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Illinois: 78% drive alone, 7% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The distance from Union Hill to work
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.
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 Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Union Hill?
$112,500 (±$62,190) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Union Hill?
2.8%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Union Hill?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Union Hill work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chicago (16%, 56 mi), Kankakee (7%, 15 mi), Naperville (7%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Union Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Union Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Union Hill
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.