Duncannon is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,465 people and just one neighborhood, Duncannon is the 731st largest community in Pennsylvania. Duncannon has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Duncannon is a blue-collar town, with 36.07% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Duncannon is a borough of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Duncannon who work in office and administrative support (15.25%), sales jobs (11.54%), and business and financial occupations (5.70%).
Also of interest is that Duncannon has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
In Duncannon, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.23 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. However, the borough is also quite pedestrian-friendly, because many neighborhoods are very dense and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.
In Duncannon, just 12.72% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Duncannon in 2022 was $31,870, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $127,480 for a family of four. However, Duncannon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Duncannon is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Duncannon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Duncannon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Duncannon include German, Irish, Scots-Irish, English, and Pennsylvania German.
The most common language spoken in Duncannon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Polish.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 40.5% have German ancestry.
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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Duncannon are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 67.9% of America's neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 33.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.5%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Duncannon, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.2%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (5.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.