With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of New Union works elsewhere
Hardly any stay in New Union for work; outside it, Manchester is the main destination (22%, 5 miles). New Union has 22 jobs; 641 of its residents have a job. The two grades for New Union are A− for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in New Union
Inside New Union’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, New Union is better than 79% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds New Union’s grade up (0.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, New Union could be anywhere from B to A.
New Union by day and by night
On a workday 641 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in New Union on a workday afternoon, 29% 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 places New Union commutes to
Where New Union clocks in
22% of workers
11% 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.
The kinds of work in New Union
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Union, 2013 → 2023: 31 → 22. 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 New Union’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way for New Union’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Union workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 879 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across Tennessee: 87% 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.
The commute from New Union, by distance
About 26% 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.
Driving is how New Union gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Union is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place New Union near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 966 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 New Union households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Union’s commuters take a bus or train.
New Union is 761st of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Lookout Mountain TN | 2,044 | $201K | 2.3% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 195 | Walden TN | 1,965 | $124K | 3.1% | 4.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 759 | Haven Township MN | 1,951 | $104K | 3.8% | 4.2% | 1% | A− |
| 760 | Lyndon WI | 1,545 | $93K | 4.3% | 2.2% | 2% | A− |
| 761 | New Union TN | 2,160 | $81K | 0.7% | 2.1% | 0% | A− |
| 762 | Mitchellville IA | 2,671 | $81K | 10.3% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| 763 | Caledonia NY | 2,089 | $84K | 4.7% | 3.0% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 New Union, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
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 New Union: questions
What is the median household income in New Union?
$81,367 (±$6,554) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Union?
0.7%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Union?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Union work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Manchester (22%, 5 mi), Murfreesboro (11%, 29 mi), Nashville (8%, 59 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Union walkable?
New Union is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Union 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 New Union, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Union
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.