Photo: Jakec · CC BY-SA 4.0North Union Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers; Pennsylvania has 16%. North Union Township has 190 jobs; 614 of its residents have a job. The two grades for North Union Township are B− for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in North Union Township
What’s behind North Union Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, North Union Township is better than 49% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds North Union Township’s grade up (6.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 33% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: North 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, North Union Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
North Union Township’s commute takes about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of North Union Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 558 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
North Union Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 610 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 186 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in North Union Township on a workday afternoon, 30% 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 2024, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Hazle Township
Where North Union Township clocks in
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.
North Union Township works in goods: 80% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in North Union Township, 2014 → 2024: 51 → 190. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs North Union Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far North Union Township’s workers travel
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around North Union Township: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, North Union Township is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 603 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). 2.4% of North Union Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of North Union Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How North Union Township ranks: 2,098th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,096 | Unity NH | 1,528 | $88K | 6.3% | 1.0% | 2% | B− |
| 2,097 | Canadice NY | 1,619 | $68K | 4.0% | 11.8% | 4% | B− |
| 2,098 | North Union Township PA | 1,412 | $71K | 6.4% | 3.4% | 1% | B− |
| 2,099 | Hazelhurst WI | 1,323 | $85K | 5.1% | 2.0% | 4% | B− |
| 2,100 | New Sarpy LA | 1,247 | $52K | 9.4% | 8.5% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 North Union Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
North Union Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to East Union Township (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | North Union Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Union Township | – | B− | C | 32 min | $71,250 |
| East Union Township | 5% | C+ | D | 33 min | $80,982 |
| Union Township | under 2% | B− | C− | 29 min | $85,379 |
| Beaver Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Beaver Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of North 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 2024, 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 North Union Township: questions
What is the median household income in North Union Township?
$71,250 (±$11,871) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in North Union Township?
6.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from North Union Township?
32 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in North Union Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hazle Township (13%, 10 mi), East Union Township (5%, 4 mi), West Hazleton (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is North Union Township walkable?
North Union Township is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around North Union Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from North Union Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of North Union Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.