Work & commute · Union Springs

Work & commute in Union Springs, AL

About one in 4 of Union Springs’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Montgomery (11%), Tuskegee (3%) and Auburn (3%). Half commute less than 33 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25%

263 of 1,042 working residents

Typical commute

33 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

40 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 779 Union Springs residents head out of town to work, 263 work right here, and 1,352 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Union Springs.

779live here, work elsewhere

263live and work here

1,352work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Union Springs goes to work

Union Springs (in town)right here

25%263

Montgomery35.4 mi away

11%118

Tuskegee19.4 mi away

3%33

Auburn34.8 mi away

3%31

Opelika41 mi away

3%30

Dothan65.1 mi away

3%29

Bakerhill35.1 mi away

2%20

Birmingham114.6 mi away

2%20

Prattville47.9 mi away

1%15

Troy27.6 mi away

1%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%469

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Union Springs commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

32%

28%

32%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

32%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Union Springs is a job hub

1.55jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Union Springs are

1,615 jobs are based in Union Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Union Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Union Springs

1,615 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)38%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Union Springs residents hold

1,042 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month43%

−30%

Jobs based in Union Springs, 2013 → 2023: 2,318 → 1,615. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.