Union TownshipIN
A town of 1,600.
Is Union Township a good place to live?
The best of Union Township’s subject grades is an A− for schools; the weakest is a D for walkability. Union Township’s average trip to work is 40 minutes, against 24 minutes in Indiana’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Only 32 of Indiana’s 1,096 towns score lower on incomes. Homes are within reach, about $278K for a typical one, or 3.1 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. Only 22 of Indiana’s 1,098 towns score lower on history. Union Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Union Township stand out
Where Union Township beats most towns.
95% of working residents leave Union Township for work
Where Union Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Union Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Union Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Union Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Union Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Union Township.
With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Union Township’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave Union Township for work: only 5% work in town. Since 2013, Union Township has added 52 jobs, to 310 in 2023. 14% of Union Township residents live below the poverty line, above both Indiana’s towns (10%) and U.S. towns (9.6%).
| Union Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 14% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.6% | 11% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Low risk in Union Township, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 75% of U.S. communities. Since 2015, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Union Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Union Township has four seasons and pleasant summers
Union Township has chilly winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 17° and about 25 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Residents of Union Township are less healthy than 66% of U.S. towns
Union Township beats the Indiana average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 40% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Union Township.
| Union Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 37% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 39% | 35% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 8.3% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 78% | 80% | 79% |
| What stands out | Union Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 10.7% | 8.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Union Township has set aside 0.2% of its land for conservation
1.9 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Union Township
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Union Township; the nearest are
About 2 of every 100 Union Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
About Union Township
Township in Indiana, United States
Union Township is one of thirteen townships in Jasper County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,588 (a tiny increase of 1,586 from 2010) and it contained 592 housing units. Union Township was founded in 1868.
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- Area
- 57 sq mi
- Elevation
- 689 ft
Union Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Union Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Township | — | — | B+ | — | A− | C |
| Barkley Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Keener Township | #121 | A− | A | — | A− | C+ |
| Walker Township | #262 | B | A | — | A− | C |
| Newton Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Marion Township | #189 | B+ | A+ | — | A | C |
Union Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Union Township, Keener Township, Walker Township and Marion Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Barkley Township and Newton Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Union Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Union Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Union Township, IN expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.