Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0Union Mills has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Hardly any stay in Union Mills for work; outside it, Valparaiso is the main destination (18%, 14 miles). 22 jobs are based in Union Mills, and 137 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Indiana has 11%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Union Mills quiets down on a workday
On a workday 137 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 120 people are in Union Mills on a workday afternoon, 49% 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.
Where people from Union Mills work
Where Union Mills clocks in
18% of workers
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.
What Union Mills’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Union Mills, 2013 → 2023: 30 → 22. 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 Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Union Mills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Union Mills workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 152 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Indiana: 85% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Union Mills
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.
The towns around Union Mills
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Union Mills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Mills | – | — | — | 27 min | $93,523 |
| Wellsboro | under 3% | — | — | 51 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Wellsboro: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Union Mills’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 Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Union Mills?
$93,523 (±$25,012) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Union Mills?
0.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Union Mills?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Union Mills work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Valparaiso (18%, 14 mi), La Porte (12%, 9 mi), Michigan City (8%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Union Mills 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 Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Union Mills
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.