Union Park is a somewhat small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 10,198 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Union Park is the 236th largest community in Florida.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Union Park is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Union Park is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Union Park who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.94%), sales jobs (11.73%), and management occupations (7.52%).

Also of interest is that Union Park has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Union Park is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Union Park enrolled in college, Union Park has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.

Union Park is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Union Park isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.13% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Union Park is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Union Park Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Union Park who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 21.10% of adults in Union Park have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Union Park in 2000 was $19,087, which is middle income relative to Florida, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $76,348 for a family of four.

Union Park is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Union Park home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Union Park is White, followed by African-American. Union Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.35% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Union Park include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Union Park is English. Some people also speak Spanish.