Photo: Dclemens1971 · CC BY 4.0Unionville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
There are 95 jobs in Unionville, against 678 working residents. For jobs and income Unionville is better than 70% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (C+). Hardly any work in Unionville; the top destination outside it is Shelbyville (18%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Unionville stands out on work
Unionville is a place people come home to
There are 95 jobs based in Unionville, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Unionville has about 690 people in it, 46% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Unionville and Shelbyville trade workers both ways
Shelbyville is the top workplace for Unionville residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Unionville come from (21% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Unionville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 26 across Tennessee. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 678 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Unionville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Unionville’s grade up (1.4%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($70,541, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Unionville’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, Unionville could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Unionville by day and by night
On a workday 676 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 93 people come in from elsewhere.
About 690 people are in Unionville on a workday afternoon, 46% 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.
Where people from Unionville work
Where Unionville clocks in
18% of workers
14% 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.
How long Unionville spends getting to work: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Unionville workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 628 commuters (the 10% 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.
Goods jobs make up 54% of work in Unionville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Unionville, 2014 → 2024: 71 → 95. 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 Unionville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Unionville
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.
Few in Unionville walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.0% across Tennessee, on an EPA index of 3.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 700 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 Unionville households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Unionville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Unionville next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 804th of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | 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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| 334 | Rossville TN | 1,215 | $120K | 7.3% | 6.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 721 | Orlinda TN | 1,028 | $84K | 6.4% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 802 | Shrewsbury Township NJ | 1,078 | $81K | 10.9% | 2.2% | <1% | B+ |
| 803 | Mathews LA | 1,598 | $87K | 6.0% | 1.6% | 3% | B+ |
| 804 | Unionville TN | 1,275 | $71K | 1.4% | 0.0% | <1% | B+ |
| 805 | Barrackville WV | 1,196 | $79K | 4.1% | 3.7% | 1% | B+ |
| 806 | Monterey MA | 1,093 | $152K | 4.1% | 9.4% | 10% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 843 | Norris TN | 1,621 | $76K | 6.6% | 0.2% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Unionville, 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 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 Unionville: questions
What is the median household income in Unionville?
$70,541 (±$19,945) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Unionville?
1.4%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Unionville?
32 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Unionville work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Shelbyville (18%, 10 mi), Nashville (17%, 40 mi), Murfreesboro (14%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Unionville walkable?
Unionville is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Unionville 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 Unionville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Unionville
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.