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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. Much of the housing stock in Duncannon was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Duncannon, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.07% of Duncannon’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. 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.
Setting & Lifestyle
One downside of living in Duncannon is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Duncannon, the average commute to work is 31.23 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. However, it is a pedestrian-friendly borough. Many of Duncannon’s neighborhoods are dense enough and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.
Demographics
The rate of college-level education in Duncannon is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.72% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
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.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Duncannon, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Diversity
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.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
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.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
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.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.5%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
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.
Getting to Work
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
