St. Boniface Church, Convent and Rectory · Photo: Ed Leckert · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Uniontown works elsewhere
Home is the office for 3% of workers, next to 20% for Washington as a whole. Employers in Uniontown report 35 jobs, against 126 working residents. Only 3% stay in Uniontown for work; outside it, Pullman is the main destination (29%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Uniontown quiets down on a workday
On a workday 122 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 310 people are in Uniontown on a workday afternoon, 23% 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 Uniontown commutes to
Where Uniontown clocks in
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.
74% of the jobs in Uniontown pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Uniontown, 2013 → 2023: 45 → 35. 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.
A commute of about 21 minutes in Uniontown
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Uniontown workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 166 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Washington: 79% 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.
How far Uniontown goes to work
About 23% 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.
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?
$71,563 (±$30,523) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Uniontown?
7.3%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Uniontown?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Uniontown work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pullman (29%, 14 mi), Lewiston (7%, 11 mi), Colton (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Uniontown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% 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.