Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHardly anyone in Union Township is out of work
Jobs and income earn Union Township A; getting around on foot earns it B. About one in five work in Union Township itself; outside it, Kalida draws the most (18%, 2 miles). Home is the office for 6% of workers, against 13% across Ohio.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Union Township and work: the main findings
Union Township makes and builds things
66% of the jobs based in Union Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Union Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 35%. The jobs ↓
Union Township has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Union Township went from 986 in 2013 to 1,735 in 2023, +76%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Union Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Union Township is better than 87% of U.S. towns, #170 of 992 in Ohio. Unemployment holds Union Township’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Union Township could be anywhere from A− to A.
Union Township works in goods: 66% of its jobs
1,735 jobs are based in Union Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Union Township, 2013 → 2023: 986 → 1,735. 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.
A workday in Union Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,132 residents head out to work, 270 work right here, and 1,465 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,300 people are in Union Township on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.24 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.
The places Union Township commutes to
Where Union Township clocks in
12% 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.
About 19 minutes each way, quicker than most of Ohio
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Union Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,505 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 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.
Union Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 17% 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.
For most of Union Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Union Township is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns, #358 of 993 in Ohio. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,600 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). 0.0% of Union Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Union Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Union Township is 501st of 4,618 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Jersey Township OH | 2,678 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Silver Lake OH | 2,504 | $140K | 2.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Evendale OH | 2,657 | $149K | 1.5% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 499 | Wales NY | 3,019 | $89K | 4.3% | 1.2% | 5% | A |
| 500 | Linn WI | 2,707 | $99K | 5.7% | 1.3% | 3% | A |
| 501 | Union Township OH | 2,986 | $89K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 19% | A |
| 502 | West Menlo Park CA | 3,634 | $250K | 3.0% | 6.3% | 1% | A |
| 503 | Atkins IA | 2,203 | $112K | 5.3% | 2.5% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Ohio.
The towns around Union Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Union Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Township | – | A | B | 19 min | $89,116 |
| Sugar Creek Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Greensburg Township | under 2% | A− | C | 23 min | $106,618 |
| Pleasant Township | under 2% | B+ | C | 20 min | $85,424 |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | — | — | 17 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Sugar Creek Township: not graded. Jackson 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?
$89,116 (±$7,880) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Union Township?
1.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Union Township?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Union Township work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kalida (18%, 2 mi), Lima (12%, 16 mi), Ottawa (7%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Union Township walkable?
Union Township is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Union Township 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 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.