Union Township has lower household incomes than 83% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, where Missouri as a whole has 13%. The poverty rate is 17.2%, next to 12.6% for Missouri as a whole. Union Township grades D for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Union Township, in brief
Where Union Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Union Township is better than 6% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Union Township’s grade.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Union Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Union Township could be anywhere from D− to D.
How many miles Union Township commutes
About 38% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Union Township
On a workday 682 residents head out to work, 99 work right here, and 556 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
11% of working residents work in Gallatin
Where Union Township clocks in
11% of workers
9% 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.
Jobs in Union Township: what the 655 are
655 jobs are based in Union Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Union Township, 2013 → 2023: 648 → 655. 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 Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Union Township: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Union Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 774 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Missouri: 86% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Union Township
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Union Township is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 12.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.2% across Missouri, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 816 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 8.4% of Union Township households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Union Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Union Township next to U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Warson Woods MO | 1,990 | $207K | 1.3% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Weatherby Lake MO | 2,139 | $153K | 3.4% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 51 | Lake Winnebago MO | 1,869 | $179K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,885 | Bellows Falls VT | 2,706 | $56K | 25.1% | 11.7% | 15% | D |
| 4,886 | Roodhouse Township IL | 1,764 | $59K | 25.8% | 13.3% | 3% | D |
| 4,887 | Union Township MO | 2,179 | $54K | 17.2% | 3.9% | 13% | D |
| 4,888 | Texas Township PA | 2,273 | $42K | 20.2% | 4.6% | 11% | D |
| 4,889 | Tipton CA | 2,851 | $45K | 31.1% | 10.4% | 7% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Union Township, the top three, the last and three more from Missouri.
Around Union Township: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Union Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Township | – | D | A− | 25 min | $54,000 |
| Liberty Township | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Jackson Township | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Grand River Township | under 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Monroe Township | under 3% | — | — | 107 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Liberty Township, Jackson Township, Grand River Township and Monroe Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Union Township’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 Township: questions
What is the median household income in Union Township?
$54,000 (±$7,727) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Union Township?
17.2%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Union Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Union Township work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gallatin (11%, 2 mi), Kansas City (9%, 64 mi), St. Joseph (7%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Union Township walkable?
Union Township is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Union Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Union Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Union Township
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.