Union TownshipWhitley County, IN
A town of 2,725.
Is Union Township a good place to live?
Union Township gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $215K, 3 years of the Fort Wayne metro’s $71K median household income. It grades B overall, 285th of 585 graded towns in Indiana. On the plus side, natural-hazard risk is low. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 97% of U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is Richey Woods Nature Preserve, at 134 acres.
What makes Union Township stand out
Where Union Township beats most towns.
Jobs vs. working residents
Union Township has grown 21% since 2010
2,244 counted in 2010 and 2,625 in 2020; an estimated 2,725 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Union Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Union Township is from typical.
Its grades run from A for hazard risk (better than 94% of comparable towns) to D− for walkability (better than 3%), so the B overall blends very different results.
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.
Union Township carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Indiana (mostly inland flooding), draws workers from Fort Wayne and beyond and looks healthier within Indiana than nationally.
About one in three of Union Township’s working residents commute to Fort Wayne
4,838 jobs are based in Union Township, 3.5 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 2,900 in 2013 to 4,838.
Most working residents leave Union Township for work: only 11% work in town. Since 2013, Union Township has added 1,938 jobs, to 4,838 in 2023. Union Township’s average trip to work is 22 minutes, where Indiana’s towns sit at 24 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes.
| Union Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 11% | 11% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Public schools in Union Township beat 59% of Indiana districts
Its public schools are run by the Whitley County Con Schools. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coesse SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 291 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests and graduation
Inland flooding leads a very low hazard risk in Union Township
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 96% of Indiana towns, with expected losses of about $313 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
Union Township’s FEMA risk score is 7 of 100, below both the Indiana town median (38 of 100) and the median of U.S. towns (44 of 100).
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
| Union Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.3% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Richey Woods Nature Preserve | — | 134 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Union Township
Union Township has chilly winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 17° and about 21 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
On CDC estimates, Union Township is less healthy than 54% of U.S. towns
Within Indiana it is healthier than 66% of the 589 graded towns: much of Indiana scores lower on these measures.
Union Township beats the Indiana average on 5 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 40% of adults have obesity in Union Township.
| Union Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 39% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 37% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 32% | 33% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 17% | 14% |
| What stands out | Union Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.8% | 14.7% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 6.9% | 8.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.5% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Fort Wayne Children's Zoo and 6 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Union Township. Close and well known come first.
13 mi Zoo & aquariumFort Wayne Children's Zoo
23 mi MuseumAuburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum
14 mi MuseumFort Wayne Museum of Art
18 mi MuseumUnited States Vice Presidential Museum
19 mi MuseumForks of the Wabash
14 mi GardenFoellinger-Freimann Botanical ConservatoryPhoto credits
Fort Wayne Children's Zoo: Momoneymoproblemz, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum: Michael Walter, a.k.a. Cuppysfriend, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Wayne Museum of Art: Momoneymoproblemz, CC BY-SA 3.0 · United States Vice Presidential Museum: Pilcrow, Public domain · Forks of the Wabash: Chris Light (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Everything we know about Union Township
Colleges nearby
5 within 15 miles of the center of Union Township
About 4 of every 100 Union Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
Every workday, about 4,685 people come to Union Township for work
Where Union Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Union Township
Township in Indiana, United States
Union Township is one of nine townships in Whitley County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,625 (up from 2,244 at 2010) and it contained 1,144 housing units.
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- Area
- 37 sq mi
- Elevation
- 853 ft
Union Township’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Union Township.
All 3 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its B; Columbia Township (B+) is closest.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Township | #285 | B | B+ | — | B | B− |
| Columbia Township | #208 | B+ | A− | — | B | B− |
| Lake Township | #6 | A+ | A− | — | A | B |
| Jefferson Township | — | — | B+ | — | B | B |
| Smith Township | #124 | A− | A+ | — | B− | B− |
Jefferson Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Union Township, Columbia Township, Lake Township, Jefferson Township and Smith Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Union Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Union Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Union Township, IN a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Union Township grades B overall, better than 62% of U.S. towns and #285 of 585 in Indiana. It grades B− for health and B for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
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+.