Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Most of Uniontown commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
A typical one-way commute lasts 22 minutes, where Kentucky has 24 and the U.S. 26. There are 64 jobs in Uniontown, against 403 working residents. Only 3% work in Uniontown itself; outside it, Morganfield draws the most (15%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Uniontown, in a few figures
Uniontown is a place people come home to
There are 64 jobs based in Uniontown, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Uniontown has about 560 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Uniontown and Morganfield trade workers both ways
Morganfield is the top workplace for Uniontown residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Uniontown come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 403 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Uniontown on a workday afternoon
On a workday 390 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 51 people come in from elsewhere.
About 560 people are in Uniontown on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
The towns that employ Uniontown’s residents
Where Uniontown clocks in
15% of workers
12% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Uniontown: what the 64 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Uniontown, 2013 → 2023: 107 → 64. 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 Uniontown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Uniontown spends getting to work: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Uniontown workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 280 commuters (the 14% who work from home are left out). Across Kentucky: 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.
Half of Uniontown commutes less than 16 miles
About 21% 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 Uniontown: questions
What is the median household income in Uniontown?
$43,857 (±$11,222) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Uniontown?
13.3%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Uniontown?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Uniontown work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morganfield (15%, 6 mi), Henderson (12%, 20 mi), Evansville (5%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Uniontown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Uniontown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Uniontown
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.