Photo: WeaponizingArchitecture · CC BY-SA 4.0Uniontown’s household incomes are lower than in 98% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Uniontown; the top destination outside it is North Union Township (11%, 2 miles). Poverty touches 27.8% of residents, next to 11.7% for Pennsylvania as a whole. Uniontown 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
Inside Uniontown’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Uniontown is better than 8% of U.S. towns, #1,018 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car holds Uniontown’s grade up (ahead of 57% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($35,454, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Uniontown could be anywhere from D to C−.
How many people are in Uniontown by day
On a workday 3,276 residents head out to work, 524 work right here, and 4,376 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11,000 people are in Uniontown on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.29 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.
Where Uniontown goes to work
Where Uniontown clocks in
4% 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.
What work there is in Uniontown: 4,900 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Uniontown, 2013 → 2023: 5,937 → 4,900. 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.
Getting to work from Uniontown takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Uniontown workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,557 commuters (the 8% 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.
Miles to work from Uniontown
About 15% 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.
In Uniontown, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Uniontown is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns, #264 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,871 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). 20.6% of Uniontown households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Uniontown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Uniontown next to U.S. towns of 6,600 to 12,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Bethel Township PA | 9,774 | $177K | 1.8% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Upper Nazareth Township PA | 8,521 | $122K | 1.2% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,671 | Lexington TN | 8,130 | $49K | 18.4% | 8.3% | 37% | D |
| 2,672 | Lanett AL | 6,781 | $42K | 19.1% | 7.3% | 7% | D |
| 2,673 | Uniontown PA | 9,434 | $35K | 27.8% | 9.2% | 14% | D |
| 2,674 | Indiantown FL | 6,826 | $56K | 23.3% | 7.2% | 8% | D |
| 2,675 | Magalia CA | 7,389 | $57K | 11.8% | 10.3% | 7% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,806 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Uniontown, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns next door employ 21% of Uniontown
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Uniontown workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uniontown | – | D | A | 24 min | $35,454 |
| South Union Township | 10% | B | B− | 22 min | $77,708 |
| North Union Township | 11% | C− | B+ | 22 min | $54,336 |
| Oliver | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Leith-Hatfield | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| East Uniontown | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| South Uniontown | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Oliver, Leith-Hatfield, East Uniontown and South Uniontown: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to North Union Township. Darker towns draw more of Uniontown’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 Uniontown: questions
What is the median household income in Uniontown?
$35,454 (±$8,305) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Uniontown?
27.8%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Uniontown?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Uniontown work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are North Union Township (11%, 2 mi), South Union Township (10%, 2 mi), Pittsburgh (4%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Uniontown walkable?
Uniontown is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Uniontown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 21% 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. 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.